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Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges [PDF]
Social Media and 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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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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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
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The impact of misinformation presented during jury deliberation on juror memory and decision-making [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWhen deliberating, jurors may introduce misinformation that may influence other jurors’ memory and decision-making. In two studies, we explored the impact of misinformation exposure during jury deliberation. Participants in both studies read a transcript
Hayley J. Cullen +10 more
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Progress in Disaster Science, 2020 The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms is faster than the spread of Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) and it can generate hefty deleterious consequences on health amid a disaster like COVID-19.
Zapan Barua, Mingze Li
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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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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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Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques [PDF]
, 2021 This essay argues that the recent scholarship on misinformation and fake news suffers from a lack of historical contextualization. The fact that misinformation scholarship has, by and large, failed to engage with the history of propaganda and with how ...
Christopher Anderson
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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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