Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L Xiao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Visual disinformation in a digital age: A literature synthesis and research agenda

T Weikmann, S Lecheler - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While a fast-growing body of research is concerned with the detrimental consequences of
disinformation for democracy, the role of visuals in this context has so far only been …

Fighting cheapfakes: using a digital media literacy intervention to motivate reverse search of out-of-context visual misinformation

S Qian, C Shen, J Zhang - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As a significant source of misinformation, out-of-context visual misinformation refers to
visuals presented in an unrelated context. This study explores whether a digital media …

Commercial use of emotion artificial intelligence (AI): implications for psychiatry

S Monteith, T Glenn, J Geddes, PC Whybrow… - Current Psychiatry …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Emotion artificial intelligence (AI) is technology for emotion
detection and recognition. Emotion AI is expanding rapidly in commercial and government …

Covering conspiracy: Approaches to reporting the COVID/5G conspiracy theory

A Bruns, E Hurcombe, S Harrington - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Conspiracy theories about the 'real'origins of the coronavirus have co-evolved with media
coverage of the COVID-19 crisis itself; the World Health Organization now warns about a …

What does a journalist look like? Visualizing journalistic roles through AI

RJ Thomas, TJ Thomson - Digital Journalism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The question of “who is a journalist?” has animated much discussion in journalism
scholarship. Such discussions generally stem from the intersecting technological, economic …

Purposes, principles, and difficulties of fact-checking in Ibero-America: Journalists' perceptions

C Rodríguez-Pérez, T Seibt, R Magallón-Rosa… - Journalism …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Fact-checking journalism has become a common practice to counteract misinformation. This
research analyzes the perceptions of fact-checkers in Ibero-America on the purposes …

Visual user-generated content verification in journalism: An overview

SA Khan, G Sheikhi, AL Opdahl, F Rabbi… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past few years, social media has become an indispensable part of the news
generation and dissemination cycle on the global stage. These digital channels along with …

A process view of crisis misinformation: How public relations professionals detect, manage, and evaluate crisis misinformation

AM Mehta, BF Liu, E Tyquin, L Tam - Public relations review, 2021 - Elsevier
As an emergent phenomenon in public relations research, crisis misinformation can
challenge organisational crisis response strategies and narratives and public information …

Fake news and the web of plausibility

KM Murphy - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the presentation of fake news, the most salient kind of disinformation,
focusing neither on its text-based content nor its image-based form, but instead on its overall …