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Towards misinformation mitigation on social media: novel user activity representation for modeling societal acceptance
Intervention-based mitigation methods have become a common way to fight misinformation on Social Media (SM). However, these methods depend on how...
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Long-term assessment of social amplification of risk during COVID-19: challenges to public health agencies amid misinformation and vaccine stance
This study employs the Social Amplification of Risk Framework to investigate the stance on COVID-19 vaccines and the spread of misinformation on...
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Varieties of corona news: a cross-national study on the foundations of online misinformation production during the COVID-19 pandemic
Misinformation in the media is produced by hard-to-gauge thought mechanisms employed by individuals or collectivities. In this paper, we shed light...
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Achieving SDG3.3 and 3d in the Era of Misinformation
Health information is a very important as of our world today. There are so many reasons why people use and or need health information around the...
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How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science
Denialist scientists played an outsized role in shaping public opinion and determining public health policy during the recent COVID pandemic. From...
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Building Trust in Digital Journalism: Countering Fake News, Misinformation and Disinformation
Journalism, once a highly specialised field built on the concept of the ‘journalistic truth’, the professional discipline of assembling and verifying...
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Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation
This review discusses the dynamic mechanisms of misinformation creation and spreading used in social networks. It includes: (1) a conceptualization...
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Who Can You Believe? Of Media, Misinformation, and Trumpery
In a post-truth world we are systematically cajoled and programmed to accept mis- and dis-information. People and organisations responsible for lies,...
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Governmental actions to address COVID-19 misinformation
Since COVID-19 emerged, a plethora of misinformation has undermined the public’s ability to identify reliable sources of accurate information. To...
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Exploring a Vaccine for the Misinformation Virus in a Global Pandemic: Media Literacy, COVID, and Science Communication
I explore the questions raised at the end of my recent book on “COVID-19, Racism and Politicization: Media in the midst of a pandemic”. For this...
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Research on Misinformation and Social Networking Sites
This chapter offers a critical review of research on misinformation and social networking sites (SNSs). Using keywords related to misinformation and...
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Network Approaches to Misinformation Evaluation and Correction
Network research offers a useful toolkit allowing us to explore the social aspects of opinion formation, information credibility, media trust, and...
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Misinformation, manipulation, and abuse on social media in the era of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented setting for the spread of online misinformation, manipulation, and abuse, with the potential to...
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Private Information and Misinformation in Subjective Life Expectancy
Good retirement planning requires accurate estimation of the time horizon, that is, the lifespan. People may overestimate or underestimate their...
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Partisan public health: how does political ideology influence support for COVID-19 related misinformation?
This study analyzes over 4000 tweets related to six misinformation topics about the COVID-19 pandemic: the use of hydroxychloroquine as treatment,...
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COVID-19 Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation During the Pandemic Infodemic: A View from the United Kingdom
The global pandemic has highlighted that despite the vast medical, economic and social mitigations being rightly focused on its impact, the use of...
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The performance of truth: politicians, fact-checking journalism, and the struggle to tackle COVID-19 misinformation
Since the World Health Organization (WHO, February 2, 2020) reported that the spread of coronavirus disease has been accompanied by a “massive...
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GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are marvels of technology; celebrated for their prowess in natural...
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Curbing the COVID-19 digital infodemic: strategies and tools
A problematic manifestation of the COVID-19 pandemic is a related digital ‘infodemic’ with widespread dissemination of rumors, conspiracy theories,...
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To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter
In the context of the COVID-19 health crisis, the use of face masks has been a topic broadly debated. In many Western countries, especially at the...
