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 …

One of the most concerning notions for science communicators, fact-checkers, and
advocates of truth, is the backfire effect; this is when a correction leads to an individual …

Despite its growing prominence in news coverage and public discourse, there is still
considerable ambiguity regarding when and how fact-checking affects beliefs. Informed by …

While scientific uncertainty always invites the risk of politicization and raises questions of
how to communicate about science, this risk is magnified for COVID-19. The limited data and …

A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the extent of continued influence of
misinformation in the face of correction and the theoretical explanations of this phenomenon …

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

Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake
and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We …

Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the
effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the …

What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves
attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact …

The study reports on a meta-analysis of attempts to correct misinformation (k= 65). Results
indicate that corrective messages have a moderate influence on belief in misinformation (r …