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Don’t call it crazy: How the media “wraparound” effect cements people’s beliefs | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Dan Falk
May 5, 2022
Our world is awash in mis- and disinformation. Conspiratorial thinking and misguided beliefs and attitudes towards science are widespread. But…
Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up | WIRED
by Tom Simonite
May 5, 2022
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got…
Why researchers want broader access to social media data | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Teresa Carr
May 4, 2022
Within days of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, several social media companies took steps to reduce the circulation of Russian…
Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Shraddha Chakradhar
April 28, 2022
You’re in a WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger group with people you know and interact with regularly. Maybe it’s a family…
Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation | Shorenstein Center
April 21, 2022
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating…
Opportunity: Request for Information on Federal Priorities for Information Integrity Research and Development | Federal Register
by Federal Register
April 20, 2022
The NITRD NCO and the NSF, as part of an interagency working group on information integrity, request input from interested…
What to know about disinformation and how to address it | Stanford News
by Melissa De Witte
April 18, 2022
Over the past decade, the spread of disinformation online has become a problem facing the U.S. and the world. Increasingly,…
Studying mis- and disinformation in Asian diasporic communities: The need for critical transnational research beyond Anglocentrism | HKS Misinformation Review
by Sarah Nguyen, Lan Li, Rachel Kuo, Rachel E. Moran, and Madhavi Reddi
March 25, 2022
Drawing on preliminary research about the spread of mis- and disinformation across Asian diasporic communities, we advocate for qualitative research methodologies…
Request for Information: Call for Stories and Research on Health Misinformation | Office of the Surgeon General
by Office of the Surgeon General
March 10, 2022
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is calling for research, data, and personal experiences related to health misinformation, in an…