With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …
Large language models have abilities in creating high-volume human-like texts and can be used to generate persuasive misinformation. However, the risks remain under-explored. To …
Developing effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …
J Allen, C Martel, DG Rand - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
There is a great deal of interest in the role that partisanship, and cross-party animosity in particular, plays in interactions on social media. Most prior research, however, must infer …
The spread of misinformation online is a global problem that requires global solutions. To that end, we conducted an experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N= 34,286; …
When users on social media share content without considering its veracity, they may unwittingly be spreading misinformation. In this work, we investigate the design of …
B He, M Ahamad, S Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The spread of online misinformation threatens public health, democracy, and the broader society. While professional fact-checkers form the first line of defense by fact-checking …
M Mosleh, DG Rand - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation can come directly from public figures and organizations (referred to here as “elites”). Here, we develop a tool for measuring Twitter users' exposure to misinformation …
We present a model of online content sharing where agents sequentially observe an article and decide whether to share it with others. This content may or may not contain …