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5 days ago · By Sahar Baribi-Bartov, Briony Swire-Thompson, Nir Grinberg. Science. 31 May 2024. Misinformation is viewed as a threat to science, public health, and democracies worldwide ( 1 ). Experts define misinformation as content that is false or misleading, such that it contains some facts but is otherwise manipulative ( 2, 3 ).
5 days ago · Most fake news on Twitter (now X) is spread by an extremely small population called supersharers. They flood the platform and unequally distort political debates, but a clear demographic portrait of these users was not available. Baribi-Bartov et al. identified a meaningful sample of supersharers during the 2020 US presidential election and ...
4 days ago · Research has investigated how misinformation beliefs form and how prebunking 7 and debunking 8 can help prevent the formation false beliefs (for a review, see Ecker and collaborators 9). The ...
5 days ago · “Misinformation has been correlated with many societal challenges, but there’s not a lot of research showing that exposure to misinformation actually causes harm,” explained Allen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, the spread of misinformation related to the virus and vaccine received significant public attention.
5 days ago · MISINFORMATION. Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook. Jennifer Allen, Duncan J. Watts, and David G. Rand Authors Info & Affiliations. Science. 31 May 2024. Vol 384, Issue 6699. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3451. Editor’s summary.
5 days ago · 30 May 2024. Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy. Research from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot. By Ian Scheffler, Penn Engineering.
5 days ago · In the second study published Thursday, a multi-university group reached the rather shocking conclusion that 2,107 registered U.S. voters accounted for spreading 80% of the “fake news” (which term they adopt) during the 2020 election. It’s a large claim, but the study cut the data pretty convincingly. The researchers looked at the ...
