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What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Kate Starbird, Mike Caulfield, Renée DiResta, Emma Spiro, Madeline Jalbert, and Michael Grass
October 28, 2022
Reporters and fact-checkers are familiar with the challenges posed by rumors: They tend to be persistent. They are often entertaining.…
Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell
by Catherine Weddig
September 15, 2022
Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to…
Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post
by Will Oremus
August 30, 2022
As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding…
Cable news has a much bigger effect on America’s polarization than social media, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Homa Hosseinmardi
August 15, 2022
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of…
What is it Like to Be a Journalist During the “Fake News” Era? Not Easy. | Annenberg
by Hailey Reissman
August 15, 2022
Jeanna Sybert grew up the child of two journalists. Her father spent his career as a news desk copy editor…
Facebook Without News Would Be Even Worse | The Atlantic
by Kaitlyn Tiffany
July 26, 2022
In February 2021, Facebook abruptly wiped all of the news from its platform in Australia. The country’s lawmakers were trying…
Very Online | Columbia Journalism Review
by Karen Maniraho
July 21, 2022
“Ours is a period of increasing noise,” Jason Parham wrote earlier this year, for Wired. “Everything is bleeding into everything…
Summer Workshop on Combating Misinformation: Theoretical and Design Challenges to Support a Healthy Information Ecosystem | Syracuse University
July 18, 2022
Although misinformation has been used as a tool for propaganda throughout history, it has recently garnered immense public attention following…
Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan | HKS Misinformation Review
by Ayesha Ali, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
July 14, 2022
We evaluated the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and the ability to discern between true and false COVID-19…