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 …

Background Although at present there is broad agreement among researchers, health
professionals, and policy makers on the need to control and combat health misinformation …

Social media poses a threat to public health by facilitating the spread of misinformation. At
the same time, however, social media offers a promising avenue to stem the distribution of …

An increasing lack of information truthfulness has become a fundamental challenge to
communications. Insights into how to debunk this type of misinformation can especially be …

Social media are often criticized for being a conduit for misinformation on global health
issues, but may also serve as a corrective to false information. To investigate this possibility …

While the role of social media in the spread of conspiracy theories has received much
attention, a key deficit in previous research is the lack of distinction between different types …

We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination
program in the United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has …

Background Social media has been extensively used for the communication of health-
related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation …

Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and
commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use …

This study tests whether the number (1 vs. 2) and the source (another user vs. the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) of corrective responses affect successful …