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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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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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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In this exploratory study with a community sample (N = 115), we look at the perception of pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine misinformation, mimicking content shared by naive Facebook users, and the factors related to it among pro-Ukraine Latvians.
Martins Priedols, Girts Dimdins
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Breast cancer prevention and treatment misinformation on Twitter: An analysis of two languages
Digital Health, 2023 Objective To determine the prevalence and types of misinformation on Twitter related to breast cancer prevention and treatment; and compare the differences between the misinformation in English and Malay tweets.
Izzati Yussof +5 more
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An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter [PDF]
, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become a home ground for misinformation. To tackle this infodemic, scientific oversight, as well as a better understanding by practitioners in crisis management, is needed.
Dirkson, Anne +2 more
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