The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the
successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to …

Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

There has been growing concern about the role social media plays in political polarization.
We investigated whether out-group animosity was particularly successful at generating …

Why do people share misinformation on social media? In this research (N= 2,476), we show
that the structure of online sharing built into social platforms is more important than …

Much like a viral contagion, misinformation can spread rapidly from one individual to
another. Inoculation theory offers a logical basis for develo** a psychological “vaccine” …

Develo** effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …

Conspiracy theories related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have propagated
around the globe, leading the World Health Organization to declare the spread of …

The extent to which belief in (mis) information reflects lack of knowledge versus a lack of
motivation to be accurate is unclear. Here, across four experiments (n= 3,364), we motivated …

Implications Fake news, misinformation, and disinformation have become some of the most
studied phenomena in the social sciences (Freelon & Wells, 2020). Despite the widespread …

Understanding how vaccine hesitancy relates to online behavior is crucial for addressing
current and future disease outbreaks. We combined survey data measuring attitudes toward …