Distrust and partisan identity are theorized to undermine health communications.
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The experiments focus on correcting misinformation supportive of Russia in the Russia-Ukraine War.
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,...
Anti-vaccine content and other kinds of misinformation are hypothesized to be more heavily monetized than other kinds of online content.
Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive civil unrest.
Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of ‘echo chambers’ on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the...
Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook
Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? This group of researchers analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 million US...
How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of ‘echo chambers’ on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the...
Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions
Researchers studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any...