The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the
successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to …

Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

There has been growing concern about the role social media plays in political polarization.
We investigated whether out-group animosity was particularly successful at generating …

Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge.
Across two studies, one preregistered (n1= 1771 and n2= 1777), we assess the efficacy of …

Developing effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …

Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising
approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess the replicability and …

The spread of mis-and disinformation is an increasing concern for democratic societies
around the globe (Lazer et al., 2019). In modern high-choice media environments, exposure …

The extent to which belief in (mis) information reflects lack of knowledge versus a lack of
motivation to be accurate is unclear. Here, across four experiments (n= 3,364), we motivated …

Understanding how vaccine hesitancy relates to online behavior is crucial for addressing
current and future disease outbreaks. We combined survey data measuring attitudes toward …

Misinformation presents a significant societal problem. To measure individuals' susceptibility
to misinformation and study its predictors, researchers have used a broad variety of ad-hoc …