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Digital intermediaries—such as social media, search engines, and aggregators—offer additional pathways for accessing news. However, their impact on inequalities in news consumption, or the distribution of news exposure across the […]
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Messaging groups are emerging as “meso-spaces”—digital environments that enable sustained dialogue and collective action through their distinct affordances. We examine how such spaces facilitate civic self-organization through their hybrid online/offline, […]
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We posit that research into misinformation interventions puts too much focus on informational outcomes (e.g. perceived accuracy of misinformation), and too little on persuasive outcomes (e.g. inferred beliefs, attitudes, intentions, […]
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Digital media profoundly shape modern life, offering benefits while also prompting concerns that lead many to seek disconnection. This study investigates r/NoSurf, a large online community paradoxically dedicated to digital […]
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Our hopes are pinned on AI labels. AI labels are expected to help users navigate an increasingly synthetic information environment by distinguishing fact from fiction, human from machine. Beginning in […]
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The Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center will host the fifth annual Trust and Safety Research Conference on October 1-2, 2026 at Stanford University. The conference brings together trust and […]
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As posited in this themed issue, the notion of platformed communities accounts for a multitude of relations between users, content creators and platforms. This article analyses how synthetic influencers negotiate […]
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Fact-checking on social media matters more than ever. When Meta abandoned professional fact checkers in 2025 in favour of crowd-sourced annotations, it bet that community participation could substitute for institutional […]
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Drawing on bounded rationality theory, dual processing theory, and social identity theory, this study proposes a model of a three-stage news authentication strategy and further examines identity-driven news authentication strategy […]
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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in late 2022 led to major shifts on a platform that journalists had spent years inhabiting and adapting their practices to fit. Among the most […]
