Conspiracy theories are abundant in social and political discourse, with serious
consequences for individuals, groups, and societies. However, psychological scientists have …

Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years,
and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we …

Online media is important for society in informing and sha** opinions, hence raising the
question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of …

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

The spread of online misinformation poses serious challenges to societies worldwide. In a
novel attempt to address this issue, we designed a psychological intervention in the form of …

What is the role of emotion in susceptibility to believing fake news? Prior work on the
psychology of misinformation has focused primarily on the extent to which reason and …

The problem of fake news has gained a lot of attention as it is claimed to have had a
significant impact on 2016 US Presidential Elections. Fake news is not a new problem and …

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic
Forum considers it among the main threats to human society. This spread have been …

The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the
aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the …