To enter or stay in the US market, tobacco manufacturers must submit a Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Journal Articles & Working Papers
The researchers conducted experiments to evaluate the immediate and medium-term effects of misinformation and factual corrections during the 2020 election.
"It's Not Just Hate'': A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Detecting Harmful Speech Online
Well-annotated data is a prerequisite for good Natural Language Processing models.
Behavior change apps have the potential to provide individual support on a population scale at low cost, but they face numerous barriers to implementation.
Although experiments show that exposure to factual information can increase factual accuracy, the public remains stubbornly misinformed about many issues.
Correcting COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation in Ten Countries
What can be done to reduce misperceptions about COVID-19 vaccines?
The anti-vaccination movement, fueled by a mass of unsubstantiated, misleading, and manipulated messages, has reemerged in recent years.
Evaluating the Efficacy of Facebook's Vaccine Misinformation Content Removal Policies
Social media platforms have attempted to remove misinformation about vaccines because it obstructs efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study constructed a social network of Instagram users who posted IQOS content, a leading HTP brand, between 1 January and 5 April 2021 and identified users who positioned near the center of the...
Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence
As concerns about the spread of political misinformation have mounted, scholars have found that fact-checks can reduce the extent to which people believe misinformation.
Sceptics charge that ordinary citizens are not competent enough to sustain democracy. The researchers challenge this assessment in this paper.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread attention to an “infodemic” of potential health misinformation.
Do Local Newspapers Mitigate the Effects of the Polarized National Rhetoric on COVID-19?
This analysis tests two distinct predictions regarding local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Among the goals of information operations are to change the overall information environment vis-á-vis specific actors.
Efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have been complicated by a parallel infodemic, defined as an overabundance of information, including misinformation, which occurs during a disease outbreak.
Viruses, Vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and Improving Risky Decision-making
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, risky decision-making has determined its trajectory, from deciding whether to socially distance or wear a mask to whether to get vaccinated.
Questioning the Yelp Effect: Mixed Methods Analysis of Web-Based Reviews of Urgent Cares
The World Health Organization has deemed antibiotic resistance, which is primarily caused by antibiotic overuse, to be one of the world's most pressing health problems.
Little evidence exists on the global effectiveness, or lack thereof, of potential solutions to misinformation.
Internet interventions are effective for smoking cessation and a recommended treatment approach.
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.