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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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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 […]
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Though fact-checking’s prominence has grown in recent years, little is known about public attitudes towards the format or how fact-checking exposure a ects the accuracy of people’s beliefs about controversial […]
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Cross-partisan incivility is a pressing concern in American politics, especially online. When partisans communicate incivilly, they are less likely to learn from each other and more likely to distrust each […]
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A century after the world’s worst flu epidemic, rapid spread of misinformation is undermining trust in vaccines crucial to public health, warns Heidi Larson.
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Abstract. The tremendous amount of information available online has resulted in considerable research on information and source credibility. The vast majority
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Many journalists and industry observers lament that aggregating news underneath sensational headlines will erode credibility and turn off readers. While some scholarly work has studied journalists’ perspectives of this practice, […]
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As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. […]
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“The spread of false or misleading information is having real and negative effects on the public consumption of news.” Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate […]
