Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review

E Aïmeur, S Amri, G Brassard - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2023‏ - Springer
Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all
kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs are a double-edged …

[HTML][HTML] Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public

S Van Der Linden - Nature medicine, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

AI and the transformation of social science research

I Grossmann, M Feinberg, DC Parker, NA Christakis… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), are
substantially affecting social science research. These transformer-based machine-learning …

The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

UKH Ecker, S Lewandowsky, J Cook… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
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 …

The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

N Chater, G Loewenstein - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L **ao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023‏ - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media

J Roozenbeek, S Van Der Linden, B Goldberg… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Online misinformation continues to have adverse consequences for society. Inoculation
theory has been put forward as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation by informing …

Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased

G Ceylan, IA Anderson, W Wood - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine hesitancy: contemporary issues and historical background

RF Nuwarda, I Ramzan, L Weekes, V Kayser - Vaccines, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Vaccination, despite being recognized as one of the most effective primary public health
measures, is viewed as unsafe and unnecessary by an increasing number of individuals …

Using artificial intelligence to improve public health: a narrative review

DB Olawade, OJ Wada, AC David-Olawade… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving tool revolutionizing many aspects of
healthcare. AI has been predominantly employed in medicine and healthcare …