We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …
Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …
The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …
Ensuring alignment, which refers to making models behave in accordance with human intentions [1, 2], has become a critical task before deploying large language models (LLMs) …
There is growing concern amongst policy makers, managers and academic researchers over the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation, widely described as 'Fake …
While COVID-19 spreads aggressively and rapidly across the globe, many societies have also witnessed the spread of other viral phenomena like misinformation, conspiracy …
In recent years, the rise of Online Social Networks has led to proliferation of social news such as product advertisement, political news, celebrity's information, etc. Some of the social …
I Ahmad, M Yousaf, S Yousaf, MO Ahmad - Complexity, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of the World Wide Web and the rapid adoption of social media platforms (such as Facebook and Twitter) paved the way for information dissemination that has never been …
JD West, CT Bergstrom - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans learn about the world by collectively acquiring information, filtering it, and sharing what we know. Misinformation undermines this process. The repercussions are extensive …