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Misinformation in India's 2019 National Election

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
This study investigates the dynamics and dissemination of political misinformation in India's 2019 national election campaign, drawing on cases identified by internationally verified fact-checkers.
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj
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The role of misinformation in elder fraud: a conceptual framework

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. We propose a conceptual framework to illuminate the connections between misinformation and elder fraud, especially the role of misinformation in elder fraud. Both topics have been explored in multiple areas.
Jiangping Chen, Milo P. Ono
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Decoding the Misinformation-Legislation Pipeline: an analysis of Florida Medicaid and the current state of transgender healthcare

Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2023
Background: The state of evidence-based transgender healthcare in the United States has been put at risk by the spread of misinformation harmful to transgender people.
Catherine Lockmiller
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The Future of Misinformation [PDF]

Computing in Science & Engineering, 2019
Discusses the dangers of fake news or misinformation being disseminated via online channels.
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Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? [PDF]

, 2022
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention.
Acerbi, A, Altay, S, Mercier, Hugo, Mercier, H, Acerbi, Alberto, Altay, Sacha   +5 more
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Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms

International 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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Towards Cross-Lingual Multi-Modal Misinformation Detection for E-Commerce Management

, 2023
The misinformation detection systems are increasingly important in E-commerce management, which detect misinformation on the commodity display page. Misinformation in E-commerce is usually presented as a mismatch between multi-modal information, the ...
Zhao Li, Li, Zhenpeng, Yifan He, Zhang, Ji, Zhenpeng Li, Li, Zhao, He, Yifan, Ting Yu, Shuigeng Zhou, Zhou, Shuigeng, Ji Zhang, Yu, Ting   +11 more
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The Elephant in the Room: Prior Exposure to Misinformation and Correction Effect

SAGE Open
Prior exposure to misinformation has been shown to increase beliefs associated with that misinformation when it is seen again, which is called the repetition effect, a phenomenon not unusual but understudied.
Tianjiao Wang, Wenting Yu
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Social Media News Use and COVID-19 Misinformation Engagement: Survey Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
BackgroundSocial media is widely used as a source of news and information regarding COVID-19. However, the abundance of misinformation on social media platforms has raised concerns regarding the spreading infodemic.
Saifuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Ehab Rasul
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Misinformation Spreading on Facebook [PDF]

, 2018
Social media are pervaded by unsubstantiated or untruthful rumors, that contribute to the alarming phenomenon of misinformation. The widespread presence of a heterogeneous mass of information sources may affect the mechanisms behind the formation of public opinion.
ZOLLO, Fabiana, Quattrociocchi, Walter
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