As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
Focus Tag: News and Public Information
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors | Nieman Journalism Lab
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
We evaluated the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and the ability to discern between true and false COVID-19…