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Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a text messaging intervention for smoking cessation in Vietnam

Text messaging (SMS) smoking cessation programs can reach a large amount of cigarette smokers and are effective in increasing quit rates, but their efficacy has not yet been explored in Vietnam.

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Trump sympathy in the Balkans: cross-border populist appeal

Do populist leaders tend to win support from the same kinds of people abroad as they do at home?

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Data is disruptive: How data sovereignty is challenging data governance

As data has become essential to economic growth, data governance has become critical to modern governance.

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Causal Understanding of Fake News Dissemination on Social Media

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress towards computational fake news detection. To mitigate its negative impact, the researchers argue that it is critical to understand what user...

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Could Trade Agreements Help Address the Wicked Problem of Cross-Border Disinformation?

Whether produced domestically or internationally, disinformation is a “wicked” problem that has global impacts.

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Global Data Governance Mapping: 5 countries case study

Firms and governments have a variety of reasons for collecting data, including to create new products and to stimulate innovation.

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Book Chapter: Interactive Propaganda: How Fox News and Donald Trump co-produced false narratives about the Covid-19 crisis

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the flows of communication between politicians, journalists and citizens.

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Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms

Democratic stability depends on citizens on the losing side accepting election outcomes.

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Spread of Misinformation About Face Masks and COVID-19 by Automated Software on Facebook

The dangers of misinformation spreading on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic are known.

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Towards Statistical Foundations For Detecting Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior On Facebook

Facebook’s community standards disallow “coordinated inauthentic behavior”.