The Fake News Spreading Plague: Was it Preventable? [PDF]
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
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
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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
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Hybrid Self-Repairs in Everyday Misinformation Sharing
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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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
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Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms
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
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
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Misinformed about the “infodemic?” Science’s ongoing struggle with misinformation.
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
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
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]
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
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