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.
Journal Articles & Working Papers
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: “...
Visualizing Paired Image Similarity in Transformer Networks
The lack of explainability or interpretability is often cited as one of the main drawbacks of deep neural networks used in computer vision and machine learning.
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.