Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern
societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and political antecedents to …

This research study analyses the relationship between the use of WhatsApp to spread
misinformation (also known as fake news) and disinformation in India, and the increase in …

Implications In psychological experiments, participants are approximately as likely to accept
a piece of fake news as they are to reject a piece of true news (Altay et al., 2021a; …

To date, there is little research to measure the scale of misinformation and understand how it
spreads on largely unmoderated platforms. Our analysis of 200,000 Telegram posts …

Drawing on interviews with social movements and organizations in Mexico and Spain, this
paper sheds light on the dynamics of 'backstage activism'with a focus on WhatsApp. It …

Much as ecology emerged from biology as scientists began studying the complex
interactions between organisms in their environments, a shift is happening in …

The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but
since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater …

In this paper, we present ChatDashboard, a framework for collecting, linking, and processing
donated WhatsApp chat log data. The framework consists of the WhatsR R package for …

We conduct the first large-scale study of image-based political misinformation on Facebook.
We collect 13,723,654 posts from 14,532 pages and 11,454 public groups from August …

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 …