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 …

Misinformation on misinformation: Conceptual and methodological challenges

S Altay, M Berriche, A Acerbi - Social media+ society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Alarmist narratives about online misinformation continue to gain traction despite evidence
that its prevalence and impact are overstated. Drawing on research examining the use of big …

Reason against the machine? Future directions for mass online deliberation

R Shortall, A Itten, M Meer, P Murukannaiah… - Frontiers in Political …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Designers of online deliberative platforms aim to counter the degrading quality of online
debates. Support technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing …

[KIRJA][B] Outside the bubble: Social media and political participation in western democracies

C Vaccari, A Valeriani - 2021 - books.google.com
Much time has been spent over the past decade debating whether social media contribute to
democracy. Drawing on an original study of internet users across nine Western …

Disinformation and the structural transformations of the public arena: Addressing the actual challenges to democracy

A Jungherr, R Schroeder - Social Media+ Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Current debate is dominated by fears of the threats of digital technology for democracy. One
typical example is the perceived threats of malicious actors promoting disinformation …

Educative interventions to combat misinformation: Evidence from a field experiment in India

S Badrinathan - American Political Science Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
Misinformation makes democratic governance harder, especially in develo** countries.
Despite its real-world import, little is known about how to combat misinformation outside of …

The sharing of disinformation in cross-national comparison: Analyzing patterns of resilience

E Humprecht, F Esser, PV Aelst… - Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although the problem of disinformation is on the rise across the globe, previous research
has found that countries differ in the extent of widespread disinformation. In this study, we …

How disinformation on WhatsApp went from campaign weapon to governmental propaganda in Brazil

JVS Ozawa, SC Woolley, J Straubhaar… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The popular encrypted messaging and chat app WhatsApp played a key role in the election
of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. The present study builds on this knowledge …

Identifying the drivers behind the dissemination of online misinformation: A study on political attitudes and individual characteristics in the context of engaging with …

S Morosoli, P Van Aelst, E Humprecht… - American …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The increasing dissemination of online misinformation in recent years has raised the
question which individuals interact with this kind of information and what role attitudinal …

Motivating healthcare professionals to correct online health misinformation: the roles of subjective norm, third-person perception, and channel differences

J Oktavianus, JR Bautista - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Health misinformation continues to proliferate on social media, and corrective actions have
been deemed effective in countering online misinformation. Such corrections are especially …