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The Fake News Spreading Plague: Was it Preventable? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In 2010, a paper entitled "From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-time search" won the Best Paper Prize of the Web Science 2010 Conference.
Metaxas, Panagiotis Takis   +1 more
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Synthetic Misinformers: Generating and Combating Multimodal Misinformation

open access: yesProceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation, 2023
With the expansion of social media and the increasing dissemination of multimedia content, the spread of misinformation has become a major concern. This necessitates effective strategies for multimodal misinformation detection (MMD) that detect whether the combination of an image and its accompanying text could mislead or misinform.
Papadopoulos, Stefanos-Iordanis   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Self-Repairs in Everyday Misinformation Sharing

open access: yesInternational 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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Patient Perspectives on Psychiatric Polygenic Risk Scores in Reproductive Decision‐Making and Polygenic Embryo Screening

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polygenic risk scores (PRS) estimate individuals' genetic risk for developing multifactorial conditions. Recent genome‐wide association studies have enabled development of psychiatric PRS, which hold potential to streamline diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions.
Lauren A. Ginn   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2022
The affordances of instant messaging platforms (IMPs) have made them ready conduits for misinformation, with their popularity aggravating the misinformation problem.
Sheryl Wei Ting Ng, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
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Defending Elections Against Malicious Spread of Misinformation

open access: yes, 2018
The integrity of democratic elections depends on voters' access to accurate information. However, modern media environments, which are dominated by social media, provide malicious actors with unprecedented ability to manipulate elections via ...
Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy, Wilder, Bryan
core   +1 more source

Misinformed about the “infodemic?” Science’s ongoing struggle with misinformation.

open access: yesJournal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2021
This dataset is a measurement of Celebrity Worship (CWS), Digital Literacy (DL), and Nostalgia (NA). The participants were (1) For CWS, N = 3,223 people (181 males, 3042 females; Mage = 19.64 years old; SDage = 3.13 years), (2) For DL, N = 482 people (225 males, 257 females; Mage = 25.16 years old; SDage = 8.54 years), (3) For NA, N = 658 people (140 ...
Dietram A. Scheufele   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of eye movements on traumatic memories and the susceptibility to misinformation : a partial replication : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The issue of whether certain techniques used in psychotherapy might increase false memories is a major source of contention between cognitive and practising psychologists. Recently, a study by Houben, Otgaar, Merckelbach, and Roelofs (2018) found that
Sievwright, Olivia
core  

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