Post-Truth American Politics: False Stories and Current Crises
How do the many crises reverberating across American politics intersect with a popular sense of living in a “post-truth” world? Much recent research has looked at political crises and misinformation...
Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter
The social media platforms of the twenty-first century have an enormous role in regulating speech in the USA and worldwide.
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the importance of social distancing practices to stem the spread of the virus.
We conduct an exploratory analysis of the structure and nature of the group’s presence on the platform.
Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech
Chapter 4: Counterspeech as Persuasion and Media Effects
Distrust and partisan identity are theorized to undermine health communications.
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.
