In contemporary high-choice media environments, the issue of media trust and its impact on
people's media use has taken on new importance. At the same time, the extent to which …

Research on trust in media is on the rise. However, communication scholars have
addressed related concepts (eg media credibility) for decades, and these concepts have …

Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions
about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of 'need for …

Machine-learning has enabled the creation of “deepfake videos”; highly-realistic footage that
features a person saying or doing something they never did. In recent years, this technology …

Accompanying the success of the radical right and right-wing populist movements, right-
wing alternative online media have recently gained prominence and, to some extent …

This article provides a discussion of some of the recent research on media trust focusing on
arguments for why media trust matters. What are the arguments for why trust is important …

Recent academic debate has seen the emergence of the claim that misinformation is not a
significant societal problem. We argue that the arguments used to support this minimizing …

Since 2016, there has been an explosion of interest in misinformation and its role in
elections. Research by news outlets, government agencies, and academics alike has shown …