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The importance of a small-town news outlet maintaining a physical presence in the locality it serves has long been a taken-for-granted assumption. This has been challenged in a digital era, […]
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The perceived credibility of misinformation significantly enhances the public’s willingness to re-disseminate the misinformation, leading to severe social and economic consequences. Although previous studies have extensively analyzed how the source […]
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This study systematically analyzes and compares verification strategies employed by fact-checking organizations across various contexts. Utilizing a dataset of 3,154 verification articles from 23 organizations in eight countries across Europe […]
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This session delves into how false or misleading narratives about climate change spread across social media platforms, their tangible impacts on society, and the critical harm they can cause in […]
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Despite the increasing reliance on online media for news consumption, people generally exhibit lower levels of trust in online news relative to traditional media. To explain the preference disparities in […]
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Trust in public authorities can be crucial for a country to navigate through times of crisis. Such crises put news media into the spotlight as crucial information brokers between authorities […]
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In an era of pervasive misinformation, equipping citizens to counter its spread is increasingly critical. This study examines news authentication—individuals’ proactive verification of news—as a key indicator of resilience to […]
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Social media allow politicians to circumvent the gatekeeping role of news media by providing a platform on which they can communicate directly with and to their electorates. Still, politicians share […]
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Fact-checks successfully persuade people to reject misinformation, but people who are exposed to misinformation rarely read fact-checks. This makes increasing the demand for fact-checking a crucial, understudied aspect of the […]
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Today’s political misinformation has increasingly been created and consumed in visual formats, such as photographs, memes, and videos. Despite the ubiquity of visual media and the growing scholarly attention to […]
