A perfect storm: social media news, psychological biases, and AI

P Datta, M Whitmore, JK Nwankpa - Digital Threats: Research and …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In an age where news information is created by millions and consumed by billions over
social media (SM) every day, issues of information biases, fake news, and echo-chambers …

How do social media users and journalists express concerns about social media misinformation? A computational analysis

J Li, MW Wagner - Harvard Kennedy School …, 2024 - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Implications While social media misinformation constitutes a small percentage of an average
American's information diet in volume (Allen et al., 2020; González-Bailón et al., 2023; …

Misinformation on misinformation: Conceptual and methodological challenges

S Altay, M Berriche, A Acerbi - Social media+ society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence
that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big …

How news media frame data risks in their coverage of big data and AI

D Nguyen - Internet Policy Review, 2023 - econstor.eu
Public discourses have become sensitive to the ethical challenges of big data and artificial
intelligence, as scandals about privacy invasion, algorithmic discrimination, and …

[HTML][HTML] You have been blocked: Exploring the psychological, personality, and cognitive traits of blocking misinformation sources on social media

S Ahmed, AWT Bee, M Masood, TH Wei - Telematics and Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
While extensive research has explored user engagement with misinformation, there remains
a gap in understanding how individuals respond to those who share misinformation by …

The amplification of exaggerated and false news on social media: The roles of platform use, motivations, affect, and ideology

A Chadwick, C Vaccari, J Kaiser - American Behavioral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We use a unique, nationally representative, survey of UK social media users (n= 2,005) to
identify the main factors associated with a specific and particularly troubling form of sharing …

Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes

A Efstratiou, E De Cristofaro - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Previous work suggests that people's preference for different kinds of information depends
on more than just accuracy. This could happen because the messages contained within …

Combating information attacks in the age of the Internet: new challenges for cognitive engineering

MR Endsley - Human factors, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: This article provides an overview of the characteristics of misinformation and
information attack and their effects on the perceptions of the public, with the objective of …

Fake news land? Exploring the impact of social media affordances on user behavioral responses: A mixed-methods research

Q Zhou, B Li, C Scheibenzuber, H Li - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Social media platforms have empowered the rampant dissemination of fake news and serve
as a “hotspot” for fake news. While existing research has recognized the causal motivations …

The role of affective and cognitive involvement in the mitigating effects of AI source cues on hostile media bias

MJA Craig, M Choi - Telematics and Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
With an experimental design, this study examined the effect of source cues (Human vs. AI)
on hostile media bias through heuristic machine evaluation of machine and human social …