In contemporary high-choice media environments, the issue of media trust and its impact on
people's media use has taken on new importance. At the same time, the extent to which …

While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of
division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly …

Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer
this question, I introduce and validate large‐N behavioral data on Americans' online media …

Seismic advances in generative AI algorithms for imagery, text, and other data types has led
to the temptation to use synthetic data to train next-generation models. Repeating this …

Introduction/Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker--Misinformation, disinformation, and
online propaganda/Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons--Social media, echo …

Social media platforms have been found to be the primary gateway through which
individuals are exposed to fake news. The algorithmic filter bubbles and echo chambers that …

The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

Conventional models of agenda setting hold that mainstream media influence the public
agenda by leading audience attention, and perceived importance, to certain issues …

During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have
changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information …