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 …

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 …

Generative language models have improved drastically, and can now produce realistic text
outputs that are difficult to distinguish from human-written content. For malicious actors …

Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We
analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 …

Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all
kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs are a double-edged …

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Content on Twitter's home timeline is selected and ordered by personalization algorithms.
By consistently ranking certain content higher, these algorithms may amplify some …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

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 …

We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …