Research indicates that the reach of fake news websites is limited to small parts of the
population. On the other hand, data demonstrate that large proportions of the public know …

Fact checkers evaluate the truthfulness of political claims appearing in public. The practice
has increased enormously in recent years. This review analyses research concerning …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

This introduction to the special issue “Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation”
contains four main sections. In the first, we discuss the major sociopolitical factors that have …

The emergence of the 2019 novel coronavirus has led to more than a pandemic—indeed,
COVID-19 is spawning myriad other concerns as it rapidly marches around the globe. One …

Despite its growing prominence in news coverage and public discourse, there is still
considerable ambiguity regarding when and how fact-checking affects beliefs. Informed by …

Here I propose that the phenomenon of “fake news” is indicative of the contested position of
news and the dynamics of belief formation in contemporary societies. It is symptomatic of the …

Research on misinformation is growing in volume and scope, but defining “misinformation”
in a consistent and coherent way has been a challenge for the field. To address this …

Research examining attitudes and behaviors of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic
has largely focused on partisanship as a lens through which many Americans see the …

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