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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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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsWith the rapid development of information technology, the proliferation of misinformation has become a global security challenge. Examining the dissemination and governance of misinformation on social media is both challenging and significant.
Guiqiong Xu, Meng Qian, Lei Meng
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Raising Misinformation Awareness via Rule-Based and Mindfulness Training [PDF]
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2023 Disinformation campaigns can have real and lasting effects, such as driving political elections, causing vaccine hesitancy, and creating intergroup conflicts.
Michelle Kuralt +3 more
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Cut the CRAAP: Teaching Information Evaluation in the Misinformation Age
, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the harmful effects of misinformation and disinformation, from issues around mask-wearing and physical distancing to vaccine hesitancy. Many academic librarians teach library users how to evaluate information.
Blizzard, Kara
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Cognitive Research, 2020 Misinformation often continues to influence inferential reasoning after clear and credible corrections are provided; this effect is known as the continued influence effect.
Ullrich K. H. Ecker +2 more
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Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation
Scientific Reports, 2022 Understanding how different online communities engage with COVID-19 misinformation is critical for public health response. For example, misinformation confined to a small, isolated community of users poses a different public health risk than ...
Matthew T. Osborne +4 more
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Breaking Harmony Square: A game that “inoculates” against political misinformation
, 2020 We present Harmony Square, a short, free-to-play online game in which players learn how political misinformation is produced and spread. We find that the game confers psychological resistance against manipulation techniques commonly used in political ...
van der Linden, Sander, Roozenbeek, Jon
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, 2023 The World Health Organization labeled the rise of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic an "infodemic,"[1] or an overabundance of information, both online and offline. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of how the scientific method can find itself
Lester, Katherine
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Fake news : people with greater emotional intelligence are better at spotting misinformation [PDF]
, 2021 The spread of misinformation – in the form of unsubstantiated rumour and intentionally deceitful propaganda – is nothing new. Even in antiquity, Antony and Cleopatra were were cast as villains through fake news shared by Octavian.
Anderson, Tony, Robertson, David James
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Those ‘funny’ internet memes: a study of misinformation retransmission and vaccine hesitancy
Vocal vaccine opposition and hesitancy due to social media-based misinformation is a global threat to public health. This research seeks to investigate the influence of internet memes on misinformation retransmission in the context of COVID-19 vaccine ...
Behl, Abhishek, Kapoor, Payal
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