One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Conspiracy theories proliferate online. We provide an overview of information consumption
patterns related to conspiracy content on four mainstream social media platforms (Facebook …

Social media has played a pivotal role in polarising views on politics, climate change, and
more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Social media induced polarisation (SMIP) poses …

The Covid-19 crisis has given rise to existential questions around the university during and
after Covid-19. How might we re-imagine the future of HE and the post-coronial university …

The study outlines a model for how the COVID‐19 pandemic has uniquely exacerbated the
propagation of conspiracy beliefs and subsequent harmful behaviors. The pandemic has led …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies are transforming many consumption
activities, powering breakthroughs that expand the human experience by enhancing human …

Changing entrenched beliefs to alter people's behavior and increase societal welfare has
been at the forefront of behavioral-science research, but with limited success. Here, we …

There is mounting anecdotal evidence that some individuals fall into conspiracy “rabbit
holes” causing harms ranging from social isolation to violence. We propose a hypothetical …

Objective Social media has fundamentally changed how the world shares and receives
information. This review offers a perspective for the practicing clinician regarding how …

The COVID-19 pandemic forced countries all over the world to take unprecedented
measures, like nationwide lockdowns. To adequately understand the emotional and social …