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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, Maryke Steffens, Amalie Dyda, Kenneth D Mandl   +3 more
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Psychological Inoculation for Credibility Assessment, Sharing Intention, and Discernment of Misinformation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023
BackgroundThe prevalence of misinformation poses a substantial threat to individuals’ daily lives, necessitating the deployment of effective remedial approaches.
Chang Lu, Bo Hu, Qiang Li, Chao Bi, Xing-Da Ju   +4 more
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From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online

Media and Communication, 2021
Research typically presumes that people believe misinformation and propagate it through their social networks. Yet, a wide range of motivations for sharing misinformation might impact its spread, as well as people’s belief of it. By examining research on
Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin, Paul Mena, Shan Jiang, Christo Wilson   +4 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, Ellerton, Peter, Kinkead, Dave   +2 more
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Online Misinformation: Challenges and Future Directions [PDF]

, 2018
Misinformation has become a common part of our digital media environments and it is compromising the ability of our societies to form informed opinions.
Alani, Harith, Fernandez, Miriam
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Misinformative Advertising [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper analyzes how advertising can be used to mislead rivals in an oligopoly environment with demand uncertainty. In particular, we examine a two-period game in which two firms each sell a differentiated product whose attractiveness vis-à-vis the competitor's product is unknown.
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The effect of misinformation acceptance on COVID-19 prevention behaviors [PDF]

International Journal of Information Science and Management
The acceptance of misinformation about COVID-19 has had irreversible consequences on public health during the pandemic. The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of misinformation acceptance on preventive behaviors related to COVID-19 and
Leila Dehghani, Tahereh Tamimi, Mazyar Ganjoor, Parisa Eskandari   +3 more
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Politics meets healthcare? Religious misinformation in India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, 2020
India has recently become a hotspot of misinformation: the COVID-19 brings a new opportunity for the rumor-spreaders. Of various categories, religious misinformation seems harmful for both Indian society and public health.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
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Hybrid Self-Repairs in Everyday Misinformation Sharing

International Journal of Communication, 2022
Recent studies on counteracting misinformation have emphasized correcting others that people believe share misinformation. There is also an impression that misinformation only spreads through a single platform. This study, in response, unfolds the repair
Abdul Rohman
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False claims about false memory research [PDF]

, 2007
Pezdek and Lam [Pezdek, K. & Lam, S. (2007). What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study “False memory,” and what are the implications of these choices?
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