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Trust It or Not: Effects of Machine-Learning Warnings in Helping Individuals Mitigate Misinformation
Despite increased interests in the study of fake news, how to aid users’ decision in handling suspicious or false information has not been well understood. To obtain a better understanding […]
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This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of public security propaganda on the Chinese social media network Sina Weibo. A piece of propaganda is disaggregated into two constituent parts: its […]
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Little is known about the ways in which social media, such as Twitter, function as conduits for information related to crises and emergencies. The current study analyzed the content of […]
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We propose a model of motivated skepticism that helps explain when and why citizens are biased-information processors. Two experimental studies explore how citizens evaluate arguments about affirmative action and gun […]
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Countering science denialism. Arguing with the anti-vaxxers/flat earthers/climate change deniers may feel futile, but research just published in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that it’s actually worth it and can be […]
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This article argues that truth is vital to deliberative democracy and to communication as an academic discipline. Our definition of truth is critical realist in nature—that is, it refers to […]
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Objective: Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological profile of individuals who fall prey […]
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Citizens and Emergency Managers need to be able to distinguish ”fake” (untrue) news posts from real news posts on social media during disasters. This paper is based on an online […]
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This article argues that truth is vital to deliberative democracy and to communication as an academic discipline. Our definition of truth is critical realist in nature—that is, it refers to […]
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The size of a social media account’s audience — in terms of followers or friends count — is believed to be a good measure of its influence and popularity. To […]
