How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical
evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that …

Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

Social media has been transforming political communication dynamics for over a decade.
Here using nearly a billion tweets, we analyse the change in Twitter's news media …

The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential
election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five …

The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the
aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the …

The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic
Forum considers it among the main threats to human society. This spread have been …

Background Vaccine hesitancy has been recognized as a major global health threat. Having
access to any type of information in social media has been suggested as a potential …

This study examines dynamic communication processes of political misinformation on social
media focusing on three components: the temporal pattern, content mutation, and sources of …

The emergence of various social networks has generated vast volumes of data. Efficient
methods for capturing, distinguishing, and filtering real and fake news are becoming …

Satire is an attractive subject in deception detection research: it is a type of deception that
intentionally incorporates cues revealing its own deceptiveness. Whereas other types of …