In the battle against misinformation, do negative spillover effects of communicative efforts
intended to protect audiences from inaccurate information exist? Given the relatively limited …

Low levels of news seeking can be problematic for an informed citizenry. Previous research
has discussed different types of news non-attendance but conceptual ambiguities between …

The paper contributes to the study of institutional trust by making a connection to “cultural
backlash” theory and analyzing more recent forms of news consumption. We examine how …

In this paper, we explore US young adults' strategies for evaluating news and information
value within the rapidly changing, increasingly digitalized media environment. We draw on …

Misinformation can spread easily in end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms such as
WhatsApp where many groups of people are communicating with each other. Approaches to …

Across Europe, Public Service Media (PSM) are increasingly subject to bias accusations in
public debates. Excluding academic attention for actual bias in news content, research into …

News media trust, and the lack thereof, has been a prominent topic of discussion among
journalism scholars in recent years. In this article, we study young adults' trust in news media …

This article examines the role of institutional trust in current European societies. Based on a
secondary data analysis of Eurobarometer data (response rate 39.6%), it maps institutional …

The debate on whether and why misinformation is bad primarily focuses on the spread of
false beliefs as its main harm. From the assumption that misinformation primarily causes …

Why are prominent news media retractions so rare? Using data from a survey experiment in
which respondents view simulated Twitter newsfeeds, we demonstrate the dilemma facing …