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Preface - Special Issue on Misinformation on the Web

, 2022
Misinformation threatens democracy, economics, and society at a global scale. For the past few years, there has been a rapid rise in the use of different forms of misinformation such as rumours, spam reviews, conspiracy theories, social bots, and ...
Aberer, K, Katakis, I, Nguyen, QVH, Yin, H   +3 more
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Trace-strength and source-monitoring accounts of accuracy and metacognitive resolution in the misinformation paradigm

, 2011
Two experiments are reported that investigate the impact of misinformation on memory accuracy and metacognitive resolution. In Experiment 1, participants viewed a series of photographs depicting a crime scene, were exposed to misinformation that ...
Luna, K., Higham, P. A., Bloomfield, J.
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“With a little help from my friends…”: the role of co-witness relationship in susceptibility to misinformation [PDF]

, 2008
Inaccuracies in eyewitness accounts can occur when witnesses are exposed to post-event misinformation via discussion with a co-witness. The current study examined the role of co-witness relationship by comparing the memory performance of pairs of ...
Gabbert, Fiona, Gabbert, F., Lenton, E., Healey, Sarah, Hope, Lorraine, Healey, S., Ost, James, Lenton, Emma   +7 more
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Exposure and Reactions to Cancer Treatment Misinformation and Advice: Survey Study

JMIR Cancer, 2023
BackgroundCancer treatment misinformation, or false claims about alternative cures, often spreads faster and farther than true information on social media.
Allison J Lazard, Sydney Nicolla, Rhyan N Vereen, Shanetta Pendleton, Marjory Charlot, Hung-Jui Tan, Dominic DiFranzo, Marlyn Pulido, Nabarun Dasgupta   +8 more
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Rapid evidence profile #56: Examining types of misinformation and disinformation and the effectiveness of interventions to combat misinformation and disinformation

, 2023
An overview of the best available research evidence from around the world (i.e., evidence syntheses) and local research evidence (i.e., single studies) and may include a scan of experiences from other countries and from Canadian provinces and territories,
DeMaio, P, Waddell, K, Wilson, MG, Velez, CM, Lavis, JN, Bhuiya, AR   +5 more
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Health Misinformation Across Multiple Digital Ecologies: Qualitative Study of Data From Interviews With International Students

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundTransient migrants such as international students have received limited support from host country governments throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rashika Bahl, Shanton Chang, Dana McKay, George Buchanan   +3 more
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The Persistence of Misinformation [PDF]

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2015
In this issue of the Journal , Granter and colleagues1 share the findings of an investigation as to when and where an erroneous attribution began many years ago. They then discuss a number of reasons as to why the persistence of misinformation has occurred over the subsequent decades.
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Misinformation and herd behavior in media markets: A cross-national investigation of how tabloids' attention to misinformation drives broadsheets' attention to misinformation in political and business journalism.

PLoS ONE, 2020
This study develops and tests a theoretical framework, which draws on herd behavior literature and explains how and under what conditions tabloids' attention to misinformation drives broadsheets' attention to misinformation.
Bartosz Wilczek
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The presumed influence of election misinformation on others reduces our own satisfaction with democracy

, 2021
Pervasive political misinformation threatens the integrity of American electoral democracy but not in the manner most commonly examined. We argue the presumed influence of misinformation (PIM) may be just as pernicious, and widespread, as any direct ...
Li, Q., Mortenson, C., Nisbet, E.C.
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Can "Googling" correct misbelief? Cognitive and affective consequences of online search.

PLoS ONE, 2021
With increasing concern over online misinformation in perspective, this study experimentally examined the cognitive as well as the affective consequences of online search.
Tetsuro Kobayashi, Fumiaki Taka, Takahisa Suzuki   +2 more
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