Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political
propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …

Although the rise of fake news is posing an increasing threat to societies worldwide, little is
known about what associations the term 'fake news' activates in the public mind. Here, we …

This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—
Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 US presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA …

In the current era, people and society have grown increasingly reliant on artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies. AI has the potential to drive us towards a future in which all of …

In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in
part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access …

Progress in the burgeoning field of misinformation research requires some degree of
consensus about what constitutes an effective intervention to combat misinformation. We …

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know
what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in …

The massive spread of false information on social media has become a global risk, implicitly
influencing public opinion and threatening social/political development. False information …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …