Abstract We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents’ beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among…
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Even George Washington was a target of misinformation | Poynter
by Angie Drobnic Holan
February 23, 2022
While it’s easy to consider President George Washington as a Founding Father from long ago, his political milieu of the…
Opportunity: Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship | Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
by Social Science Research Council
February 16, 2022
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of…
Call for Papers: What Comes After Disinformation Studies? | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)
by Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)
February 2, 2022
The title of this pre-conference, “What Comes After Disinformation Studies?”, is something of a deliberate provocation. With an ongoing increase…
Call for Proposals: The Mercury Project | Social Science Research Council
by Social Science Research Council
December 13, 2021
Evidence-based strategies to combat health mis- and disinformation and to increase the uptake of reliable health information are critical to…
A Limiting Lens: How Vaccine Misinformation Has Influenced Hispanic Conversations Online | First Draft
by Jaime Longoria, Daniel Acosta, Shaydanay Urbani and Rory Smith
December 9, 2021
Hispanic people in the United States are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be infected with Covid-19…
Job Opportunity: Faculty Fellows – Race, Technology, and the State | Data & Society Research Institute
by Data & Society Research Institute
December 8, 2021
Call for 2022-23 Faculty Fellows: Race, Technology, and the State Deadline for applications: December 15, 2021 Data & Society is…
Video: How U.S. social media conspiracy theories made Europeans skeptical of the Covid vaccine | NBC
by Brandy Zadrozny
December 1, 2021
NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny reports on how people in Europe are skeptical of the Covid-19 vaccine due to conspiracy theories…
What Facebook knew about its Latino-aimed disinformation problem | Los Angeles Times
by Brian Contreras and Maloy Moore
November 17, 2021
It was October 2020, election conspiracy theories threatened to pull America apart at its seams, and Jessica González was trying…
Commission on Information Disorder Final Report | The Aspen Institute
by Aspen Digital
November 16, 2021
America is in a crisis of trust and truth. Bad information has become as prevalent, persuasive, and persistent as good…