Misinformation such as fake news and rumors is a serious threat for information ecosystems
and public trust. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has great potential to …

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 …

Professional fact-checking, a prominent approach to combating misinformation, does not
scale easily. Furthermore, some distrust fact-checkers because of alleged liberal bias. We …

Background Proliferation of misinformation in digital news environments can harm society in
a number of ways, but its dangers are most acute when citizens believe that false news is …

The use of survey experiments has surged in political science. The most common design is
the between-subjects design in which the outcome is only measured posttreatment. This …

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

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Conspiracy beliefs have become a topic of increasing interest among behavioural
researchers. While holding conspiracy beliefs has been associated with several detrimental …

There is a great deal of interest in the role that partisanship, and cross-party animosity in
particular, plays in interactions on social media. Most prior research, however, must infer …