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Regulating Misinformation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 The government has responded to misleading advertising by banning it, engaging in counter-advertising and taxing the product. In this paper, we consider the social welfare effects of those different responses to misinformation.
Edward L. Glaeser, Gergely Ujhelyi
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Internet Policy Review, 2023 This article delves into the diverse and complex nature of conceptualising misinformation as an object of research, highlighting the interdisciplinary scholarship in this field that results in varied and sometimes conflicting definitions.
Jing Zeng, Scott Babwah Brennen
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Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Social Media + Society, 2023 Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big data in social science and reception studies, we identify six ...
Sacha Altay +2 more
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Partisan Bias in Responses to Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Male Politicians
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022 Across two studies, we tested whether evaluations of sexual misconduct allegations against male politicians are made in a partisan biased manner. First, we investigated the likelihood a sexual misconduct allegation made by a female staffer was perceived ...
Edward J. R. Clarke +3 more
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An Examination of Factors Contributing to the Acceptance of Online Health Misinformation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examined factors including health-related anxiety, preexisting misinformation beliefs, and repeated exposure contributing to individuals’ acceptance of health misinformation.
Wenjing Pan, Diyi Liu, Jie Fang
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Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2021 Our study examines Facebook posts containing nine prominent COVID-19 vaccine misinformation topics that circulated on the platform between March 1, 2020, and March 1, 2021.
Aimei Yang +12 more
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Signs of a new world order: Italy as the COVID-19 disinformation battlefield
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2020 When Italy became the western center of the COVID-19 outbreak, it also became the focus of a series of states-sponsored coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Costanza Sciubba Caniglia
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020 BackgroundOnline misinformation proliferation during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a major public health concern. ObjectiveWe aimed to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation exposure and beliefs, associated factors including ...
Lee, Jung Jae +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The global rise of COVID-19 health risk has triggered the related misinformation infodemic. We present the first analysis of COVID-19 misinformation networks and determine few of its implications.
Mingxi Cheng +3 more
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Social media and COVID-19 misinformation: how ignorant Facebook users are?
Heliyon, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed a lot of lives around the world, not only with the virus but also with misinformation. Many researchers have investigated COVID-19 misinformation, but none of them was related to social media users’ diverse responses to ...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
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