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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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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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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 asymmetries in exposure to misinformation
Scientific Reports, 2022 Online misinformation is believed to have contributed to vaccine hesitancy during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting concerns about social media’s destabilizing role in public life.
Ashwin Rao +2 more
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On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 2020 An analysis of ‘misinformation’, a primary framing for vaccination dissent, illuminates weaknesses in understanding vaccination controversy and the dissemination of false beliefs. Rather than approaching vaccine dissenters as misinformed, we can identify how untruths circulate in good-faith efforts to identify facts and clarify the challenges that the ...
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The proliferation of health misinformation on social media is a growing public health concern. Online communities for mental health (OCMHs) are also considered an outlet for exposure to misinformation.
Nicole Bizzotto +2 more
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Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter
Big Data & Society, 2021 The spreading of COVID-19 misinformation on social media could have severe consequences on people's behavior. In this paper, we investigated the emotional expression of misinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis on Twitter and whether emotional ...
Marina Charquero-Ballester +3 more
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Knowing when to act: A call for an open misinformation library to guide actionable surveillance
Big Data & Society, 2021 The design and reporting of data-driven studies seeking to measure misinformation are patchy and inconsistent, and these studies rarely measure associations with, or effects on, behaviour.
Adam G Dunn +3 more
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Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors [PDF]
, 2018 Misinformation can have significant societal consequences. For example, misinformation about climate change has confused the public and stalled support for mitigation policies.
Cook, John +2 more
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False memory ≠ false memory: DRM errors are unrelated to the misinformation effect [PDF]
, 2013 The DRM method has proved to be a popular and powerful, if controversial, way to study 'false memories'. One reason for the controversy is that the extent to which the DRM effect generalises to other kinds of memory error has been neither satisfactorily ...
Blank, Hartmut +5 more
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