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Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy

Racial violence is central to the American polity.

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Book Chapter: Counterspeech as Persuasion and Media Effects

Counterspeech is a communicative response to hate speech that aims to reduce its harmful effects and negative externalities.

Journal of Communication in Healthcare - Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health

Trust in public health institutions moderates the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine discussion groups on Facebook

Distrust and partisan identity are theorized to undermine health communications.

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Correcting misinformation about the Russia-Ukraine War reduces false beliefs but does not change views about the War

The experiments focus on correcting misinformation supportive of Russia in the Russia-Ukraine War.

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Factual Corrections: Concerns and Current Evidence

Factual corrections that target misinformation improve belief accuracy. They do so across a wide variety of countries, political beliefs and demographic characteristics. Instances of back-fire,...

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Measuring the monetization strategies of websites with application to pro- and anti-vaccine communities

Anti-vaccine content and other kinds of misinformation are hypothesized to be more heavily monetized than other kinds of online content.

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Missing Persons: The Case of National AI Strategies

Policy makers should inform, consult and involve citizens as part of their efforts to data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). Although many users rely on AI systems, they do...

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The efficacy of Facebook’s vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive civil unrest.

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Data Dysphoria: The Governance Challenge Posed by Large Learning Models for Generative AI

Only 8 months have passed since Chat-GPT and the large learning model underpinning it took the world by storm. This article focuses on the data supply chain—the data collected and then utilized to...