There is widespread concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in
elections worldwide. Yet data have been unavailable to investigate links between exposure …

Vaccine hesitancy has been a growing public health issue, but during COVID-19,
understanding vaccine hesitancy and promote vaccine favorability takes on a troubling …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Although disinformation has become a popular concept, we lack an integrative
conceptualization that connects the actors, intentions and techniques underlying deceptive …

We propose a new way of imagining and measuring opinions emerging from social media.
As people tend to connect with like-minded others and express opinions in response to …

In this study, we explore online informational warfare by the Russian Internet Research
Agency (IRA) against Ukraine during the military conflict in Donbass. Introducing a digital …

Growing evidence points to recurring influence campaigns on social media, often sponsored
by state actors aiming to manipulate public opinion on sensitive political topics. Typically …

Since 2018, Twitter has steadily released into the public domain content discovered on the
platform and believed to be associated with information operations originating from more …

The dissemination of purposely deceitful or misleading content to target audiences for
political aims or economic purposes constitutes a threat to democratic societies and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the daily lives of billions of media users (Wölker &
Powell, 2021). Algorithms are popular and effective tools utilized by companies online, but …