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During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have been exposed to distressing content about the disease without knowing whether they can trust such content. This indicates a need to examine the effects of social media use on mental health and well-being.
Cornell University
In this paper, we present the challenges and opportunities of combining automatic and manual fact-checking approaches to combat the spread on online misinformation also highlighting open research questions that the data engineering community should address.
University of Queensland, Brisbane
This research examines the health of the local journalism ecosystems in three New Jersey communities: Newark, New Brunswick, and Morristown. The goal of this research is to develop and apply a set of reliable, scalable performance metrics intended to inform funders, policymakers, researchers, and industry professionals about the state of journalism in local communities and, ultimately, its connection to healthy democracy, and to help guide decision-making about possible areas of intervention.
Rutgers University
This article examines 3,517 Facebook ads created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) between June 2015 and August 2017 in its Active Measures disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
University of Florida
Today, nearly 41% of Americans listen to podcasts monthly, and almost one in four Americans look to podcasts for their news. Globally, the medium is projected to reach an audience of 504.9 million by 2024, while ad revenue in the United States is expected to double between 2022 and 2024, jumping from $2 billion to $4 billion.
Brookings Institution
Misinformation is a worldwide concern carrying socioeconomic and political consequences. What drives its spread?. The answer lies in the reward structure on social media that encourages users to form habits of sharing news that engages others and attracts social recognition.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Social media use is becoming an established feature of crisis events. Affected people are turning to these sites to seek information, and emergency responders have begun to incorporate them into communications strategies. Not surprisingly, one concern among responders and other officials is the rise of misinformation on social media.
University of Washington
The World Wide Web has changed the dynamics of information transmission as well as the agenda-setting process. Relevance of facts, in particular when related to social relevant issues, mingle with half-truths and untruths to create informational blends. In such a scenario, as pointed out by, individuals can be uninformed or misinformed and the role of corrections in the diffusion and formation of biased beliefs are not effective.
IUSS Institute for Advanced Study
As people across the globe have increasingly turned to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other platforms to get their news and express their opinions, the sphere of social media has become a new public space for discussing – and often arguing bitterly – about political and social issues.
Pew Research Center
Amid the political lies and misinformation that spread across the country throughout the 2022 midterm elections, statements by candidates in 29 states rarely faced the scrutiny of independent fact-checkers. Why? Because there weren’t any local fact-checkers.
Duke University Reporters' Lab
If news organizations want to win over new audiences at a time of substantive transition in journalism, growing misinformation, and multiple crises in the world, we need to understand the news habits and interests of Americans 40 and younger.
American Press Institute
Concerns over misinformation and “fake news” have recently gained prominence in public discourse, especially since the 2016 US presidential election. The World Health Organization has argued that in parallel to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, societies have faced an ‘infodemic’, where “we are all being exposed to a huge amount of COVID-19 information on a daily basis, and not all of it is reliable.”
Oxford University
Substantial attention has been paid to the spread of highly partisan and often factually incorrect information (i.e., so-called “fake news”) on social media. In this study, we attempt to extend current knowledge on this topic by exploring the degree to which individual levels of ideological extremity, social trust, and trust in the news media are associated with the dissemination of countermedia content…
University of Colorado Boulder
Against the backdrop of the emerging IS research focus on social media and the impact of misinformation during recent events such as the COVID-19, Australian Bushfire, and the USA elections, researcher identified disaster, health, and politics as specific domains for a research review on social media misinformation.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
The voices of Arizonans, and what they want, matter. In The Arizona We Want: The Decade Ahead, the Center for the Future of Arizona shares data and insights about what we learned from the 2020 Gallup Arizona Survey.
Center for the Future of Arizona