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The Latinx Community and COVID-Disinformation Campaigns | The New Yorker
by Graciela Mochkofsky
6 days ago
Are Spanish-speaking people in America more gullible than the rest of the country? A recent story from Univision, the largest…
Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? | HKS Misinformation Review
by Alberto Acerbi, Sacha Altay, and Hugo Mercier
January 13, 2022
A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news.…
Radicalization pipelines: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes | The Conversation
by Jeanna Matthews
January 13, 2022
Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your…
YouTube is major conduit of fake news, factcheckers say | The Guardian
by Dan Milmo
January 12, 2022
YouTube is a major conduit of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide and is not doing enough to tackle the spread…
The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction | Nature Reviews Psychology
by Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Philipp Schmid, Lisa K. Fazio, Nadia Brashier, Panayiota Kendeou, Emily K. Vraga & Michelle A. Amazeen
January 12, 2022
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the…
Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation | MIT Sloan
by Sara Brown
January 11, 2022
Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it. Understanding why people believe…
Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along With Spread of Omicron | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
January 11, 2022
On Dec. 29, The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that often spreads conspiracy theories, published an article falsely implying that…
Computer Model Seeks to Explain the Spread of Misinformation, and Suggest Counter Measures | Tufts Now
by Tufts University
January 11, 2022
It starts with a superspreader, and winds its way through a network of interactions, eventually leaving no one untouched. Those…
‘Flurona’ Is a Great Example of How Misinformation Blooms | Scientific American
by Raghu Adiga
January 10, 2022
Earlier this week, Israeli media reported a person who was hospitalized with evidence of both seasonal flu and COVID at…