The demand and supply of pandemic populism: a global overview

M Zulianello, P Guasti - Government and Opposition, 2023 - cambridge.org
This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between the
COVID-19 pandemic and populism. We analyse the demand and supply sides of the …

Empowering the people's truth through social media?(De) legitimizing truth claims of populist politicians and citizens

M Hameleers - Politics and Governance, 2022 - ssoar.info
Right-wing populists have allegedly fueled increasing levels of distrust regarding expert
knowledge and empirical evidence. Yet, we know little about how right-wing populist …

Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations

A Albuquerque, TM Oliveira, MAS Jr, R Quinan… - …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Conspiracy Theories (CTs) are a global phenomenon, but some societies are better
equipped than others to resist them. This article discusses the characteristics of the China …

Investigating the Heterogeneity of Misperceptions: A Latent Profile Analysis of COVID-19 Beliefs and Their Consequences for Information-Seeking

M Stubenvoll - Science Communication, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This panel study in Austria in 2020 (N W1= 912, N W2= 511) explores distinct audience
segments regarding beliefs in misinformation, conspiracy, and evidence statements on …

Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates

T Lelo - Journal of Communication, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the scholarly literature on journalism and political communication, there has been an
expectation that fact-checkers would play an important role in ensuring democratic …

Research in science communication in Latin America: mind the gap

L Massarani, T de Oliveira - Journal of Science Communication, 2022 - jcom.sissa.it
In this commentary, we discuss the challenges associated with carrying out research in
science communication in Latin America. We start with the “invisibility” of Latin American …

Fostering artificial intelligence to face misinformation: Discourses and practices of automated fact-checking in Brazil

T Lelo - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the advancement of automated fact-checking in Brazil and investigates
how artificial intelligence (AI) products shape publishers' discourses and practices. First, it …

[PDF][PDF] It-who-must-not-be-named: Covid-19 misinformation, tactics to profit from it and to evade content moderation on YouTube

DFT Machado, AF De Siqueira, NR Shimizu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - academia.edu
Studies suggest that Covid-19 misinformation became accessible and profitable through
social media platforms, such as YouTube. In this study, we investigate if Brazilian YouTube …

It-which-must-not-be-named: COVID-19 misinformation, tactics to profit from it and to evade content moderation on YouTube

DF Tokojima Machado… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 misinformation became accessible and profitable through social media platforms,
such as YouTube. Here we investigate if Brazilian YouTube channels previously identified …

Vacinas e redes sociais: o debate em torno das vacinas no Instagram e Facebook durante a pandemia de COVID-19 (2020-2021)

EM Carvalho, MA Santos Junior… - Cadernos de Saúde …, 2022 - SciELO Public Health
Tendo em vista que a Internet e, em especial, as redes sociais funcionam como lócus para a
circulação de informações sobre a COVID-19, o objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a atenção …