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Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines on Social Media: Rapid Review
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 BackgroundThe development of COVID-19 vaccines has been crucial in fighting the pandemic. However, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines is spread on social media platforms at a rate that has made the World ...
Ingjerd Skafle +4 more
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of climate change and lowered support for mitigation policies.
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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 +7 more
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The effect of question type on resistance to misinformation about present and absent details
, 2020 The typical misinformation effect shows that accuracy is lower for details about which people received misleading compared to non‐misleading (control) information. In two experiments, we examined the misinformation effect for non‐witnessed details (i.e.,
Sharman, Stefanie J +7 more
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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 +3 more
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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.
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Big Data & Society, 2021 Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered ( n 1 = 1771 and n 2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two ‘prebunking’ interventions aimed at improving people’s ability to ...
Melisa Basol +5 more
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Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal
Scientific Reports, 2022 Widespread uptake of vaccines is necessary to achieve herd immunity. However, uptake rates have varied across U.S. states during the first six months of the COVID-19 vaccination program.
Francesco Pierri +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The continued influence effect of misinformation (CIE) is a phenomenon in which certain information, although retracted and corrected, still has an impact on event reporting, reasoning, inference, and decisions.
Mikołaj Buczel +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 This paper investigates the relationship between scientists' communication experience and attitudes towards misinformation and their intention to correct misinformation.
Sera Choi +4 more
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