Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties
of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans …

Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation
theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing …

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 …

There has been increasing concern with the growing infusion of misinformation, or “fake
news”, into public discourse and politics in many western democracies. Our article first …

Political polarization, a concern in many countries, is especially acrimonious in the United
States (see the first box). For decades, scholars have studied polarization as an ideological …

The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has been accompanied by
a large amount of misleading and false information about the virus, especially on social …

Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Within a relatively short time span, social media have transformed the way humans interact,
leading many to wonder what, if any, implications this interactive revolution has had for …