Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

1. Steve Annear,“Mark Zuckerberg Couldn't Stop Mentioning Harvard Dorm During
Facebook Testimony,” Boston Globe, April 11, 2018, https://www. bostonglobe …

We present Harmony Square, a short, free-to-play online game in which players learn how
political misinformation is produced and spread. We find that the game confers …

This paper investigates online propaganda strategies of the Internet Research Agency (IRA)—
Russian “trolls”—during the 2016 US presidential election. We assess claims that the IRA …

Social bots–partially or fully automated accounts on social media platforms–have not only
been widely discussed, but have also entered political, media and research agendas …

As concerns grow about the spread of misinformation through social media, scholars have
called for improving the public's media literacy as a potential solution. This study examines …

The January 6th attack on the US Capitol demonstrated how online disinformation can have
severe offline consequences. For some time, the problems and possible impacts on …

Brazil has one of the highest rates of cases and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the world.
Two factors contributed to the high rates: the Brazilian government underestimated the …

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 …

This mixed-methods observational study analyzes Advanced Placement (AP) Biology
teachers' engagement in microblogging for professional learning. Data from three hashtag …