The emerging science of content labeling: Contextualizing social media content moderation

G Morrow, B Swire‐Thompson, JM Polny… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the online information ecosystem, a content label is an attachment to a piece of content
intended to contextualize that content for the viewer. Content labels are information about …

Characterizing COVID-19 content posted to TikTok: public sentiment and response during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

L Southwick, SC Guntuku, EV Klinger, E Seltzer… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study was to characterize COVID-19 content posted by users
and disseminated via TikTok, a social media platform that has become known largely as an …

[HTML][HTML] Social media, cognitive reflection, and conspiracy beliefs

DA Stecula, M Pickup - Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A growing number of Americans stay informed about current events through social media.
But using social media as a source of news is associated with increased likelihood of being …

How shades of truth and age affect responses to COVID-19 (Mis) information: randomized survey experiment among WhatsApp users in UK and Brazil

S Vijaykumar, Y **, D Rogerson, X Lu… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
We examined how age and exposure to different types of COVID-19 (mis) information affect
misinformation beliefs, perceived credibility of the message and intention-to-share it on …

[BUCH][B] Conspiracy Theories in the Time of COVID-19

C Birchall, P Knight - 2023 - library.oapen.org
Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

Nobody-fools-me perception: Influence of age and education on overconfidence about spotting disinformation

MP Martínez-Costa, F López-Pan, N Buslón… - Journalism …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study introduces the concept of “nobody-fools-me perception”, a cognitive bias
consisting of overconfidence in one's own ability to detect disinformation, associated with the …

Community health workers and non-clinical patient navigators: A critical COVID-19 pandemic workforce

KJ Wells, AJ Dwyer, E Calhoun, PA Valverde - Preventive Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in substantial morbidity and mortality and challenged
public health agencies and healthcare systems worldwide. In the US, physical distancing …

The presence of unexpected biases in online fact-checking

S Park, JY Park, J Kang, M Cha - The Harvard Kennedy School …, 2021 - dash.harvard.edu
The increasing amount of information online makes it challenging to judge what to believe or
discredit. Fact-checking unverified claims shared on platforms, like social media, can play a …

Communications in the coronavirus crisis: lessons for the second wave

RK Nielsen, R Fletcher, A Kalogeropoulos… - Communications in the …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
The coronavirus pandemic is a communications crisis in addition to being a public health
emergency. In this report, based on the results of ten online panel surveys of UK …

Public health resources, religion, and freedom as predictors of COVID-19 vaccination rates: a global study of 89 countries

S Omidvar Tehrani, DD Perkins - COVID, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 global pandemic necessitated adequate compliance to safe and effective
vaccinations developed against the disease. Vaccination reduces high infection, morbidity …