In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One
important aspect of this work that receives less attention than it should is exactly why …

There is a problem with applied social psychology research—what might be considered the
proverbial elephant-in-the-room—that it is the rare applied social psychology article, or set of …

The characteristics and influence of the echo chamber effect (TECE) of health
misinformation diffusion on social media have been investigated by researchers, but the …

Against the backdrop of mounting concerns about misinformation's destabilizing impact
paired with growing distrust in established news, this study explores how people estimate …

Misinformation is one of the largest challenges for risk assessment and communication.
However, the term misinformation in relation to risk has not yet been clearly interpreted by …

This study addresses two currently open questions about how behaviors of online
community members influence others' responses to misinformation. First, in contrast to prior …

Current methods of operationalizing concepts of misinformation in machine learning are
often problematic given idiosyncrasies in their success conditions compared to other models …

Concerns around the definition of misinformation hamper ways of addressing purported
problems associated with it, along with the fact that public understanding of the concept is …

What happens if the data fed to AI are biased? What happens if the response of a chatbot
spreads misinformation? Unlike many people hope, AI is as biased as humans are. Bias can …

This research study deepens the existing theory on information disorders by pro-viding,
through an experimental methodology, new empirical evidence on the dy-namics of …