As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs.
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Vaccine-related advertising in the Facebook Ad Archive
Facebook has over two billion active users, making it one of the largest communities in the world.
Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues
The efforts by social media platforms to reduce the exposure of users to misinformation have resulted, on several occasions, in flagging legitimate satire stories. To avoid penalizing publishers of...
Distrust and misinformation pose an acute global threat to established science and medicine, as well as political processes.
False Alarm: The Truth about Political Mistruths in the Trump Era
Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate.
Framing and Strategic Narratives: Synthesis and Analytical Framework
Standard journalistic tropes were of little use after the 2016 US elections. Talk of blue and red states was eclipsed by distressed discussions.
Government Role in Regulating Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Platforms
Recognizing that interactive computer services offered a forum for true diversity of political discourse, Congress enacted the Communications Decency Act.
Elites and foreign actors among the alt-right: The Gab social media platform
Content regulation and censorship of social media platforms is increasingly discussed by governments and the platforms themselves.
In Search of Meaning: Why We Still Don't Know What Digital Data Represent
In the early years researchers greeted the internet and digital data with almost wide-eyed wonder and excitement.
To illuminate and motivate: a fuzzy-trace model of the spread of information online
In this paper, we present, and test, a novel mathematical formulation of how information spreads online.