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A record number of voters will head to the polls this year, with more than 50 countries comprising half the planet’s population due to hold national elections in 2024. This […]
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As the social media landscape undergoes broad transformation for the first time in over a decade, with alternative platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads emerging where X has receded, many […]
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This event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust funded parents’ news use project – which runs from the fall of 2023 to the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use […]
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Salient social identities have long appeared to shape what we believe and know. But do social identities also shape how we know? This essay argues that performances of “lay epistemology” […]
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Research on online misinformation has evolved rapidly, but organizing its results and identifying open research questions is difficult without a systematic approach. We present the Online Misinformation Engagement Framework, which […]
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In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to concerns about political bias, disinformation, […]
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An obsession with gauging accuracy of individual posts is misguided. To strengthen information ecosystems, focus on narratives and why people share what they do. In the fall of 2017, Collins […]