Correcting COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation in Ten Countries
What can be done to reduce misperceptions about COVID-19 vaccines?
Journal Articles & Working Papers
Protecting Free Speech and Due Process Values on Dominant Social Media Platforms
In recent years, dominant social media platforms have been increasingly perceived as engaging in discrimination against conservative and right-wing viewpoints.
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.
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.
Framing Covid-19: Constitutional Versus Demagogic Rhetoric in Presidential Messaging
When Donald Trump was a candidate for president in 2016, his campaign rhetoric caused commentators to use a term they rarely applied to viable challengers for the country’s highest office: “...