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Less reliable media drive interest in anti-vaccine information | HKS Misinformation Review - 11 month(s) ago

As progress on vaccine rollout in the United States slowed down in Spring 2021, it became clear that anti-vaccine information posed a public health threat. Using text data from 5,613 distinct COVID misinformation stories and 70 anti-vaccination Facebook groups, we tracked highly salient keywords regarding anti-vaccine discourse across Twitter, thousands of news websites, and the

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  Sum: BS content creates #antivaxx interest. Less reliable media drive interest in anti-vaccine information https://t.co/IcsyjACG5r by @SSIWAKO et al. Searches & social media activity "followed spikes in their appearance in less reliable media sites, but not discussion in the… https://t.co/1fKa7qn056

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Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps | HKS Misinformation Review - 12 month(s) ago

The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic backsliding. This study leverages a two-wave survey to investigate individual-level predictors of holding electoral misinformation beliefs and the role of trust and information habits during the 2022 Brazilian elections. Our…

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  Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps https://t.co/qbWJkuFFAr via @PattiRossini et al

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Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps | HKS Misinformation Review - 12 month(s) ago

The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic backsliding. This study leverages a two-wave survey to investigate individual-level predictors of holding electoral misinformation beliefs and the role of trust and information habits during the 2022 Brazilian elections. Our…

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  Study finds "a complex relationship between the increasing use of private messaging for political participation and the spread of misinformation largely left unchecked in these spaces." Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation: https://t.co/jpNSLeYAQo by @patyrossini… https://t.co/WQ7wlWHGyv

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Where conspiracy theories flourish: A study of YouTube comments and Bill Gates conspiracy theories | HKS Misinformation Review - 2 year(s) ago

We studied YouTube comments posted to Covid-19 news videos featuring Bill Gates and found they were dominated by conspiracy theories. Our results suggest the platform’s comments feature operates as a relatively unmoderated social media space where conspiracy theories circulate unchecked. We outline steps that YouTube can take now to improve its approach to moderating misinformation.

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  Where conspiracy theories flourish: A study of #YouTube comments and #BillGates conspiracy theories https://t.co/Zwsldhxer7 cc @marco_zenone @jonathanstea "...we found comments for each video to be heavily dominated by conspiratorial statements..." #ScienceUpFirst

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Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for COVID-19 headlines, less trust but greater use of formal information sources, and greater willingness to pay for masks among social media users in Pakistan | HKS Misinformation Review - 2 year(s) ago

We evaluated the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection and the ability to discern between true and false COVID-19 information, trust in information sources for receiving COVID-19 information and willingness to pay (WTP) for masks, using a sample of 621 low- and middle-income users in Pakistan. To capture WTP, participants play an incentive-compatible game

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  "Cognitive reflection is associated with greater truth discernment for #COVID19 headlines..." https://t.co/OUR88bKc4z "...interventions to improve discernment of COVID-19 information should target users who rely on intuition and less on cognitive reflection." #ScienceUpFirst

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Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics | HKS Misinformation Review - 2 year(s) ago

This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, particularly race, plays a key role in the messages and strategies of disinformation producers and who disinformation and misinformation resonates with. Expanding what “counts” as disinformation

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  Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics https://t.co/jTYkviIcZB via @rachelkuo et al

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Hide and seek: The connection between false beliefs and perceptions of government transparency | HKS Misinformation Review - 2 year(s) ago

This research examines how false beliefs shape perceptions of government transparency in times of crisis. Measuring transparency perceptions using both closed- and open-ended questions drawn from a Canadian panel survey, we show that individuals holding false beliefs about COVID-19 are more likely to have negative perceptions of government transparency. They also tend to rely on

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  False beliefs & perceptions of government transparency https://t.co/DdGg1wS7Re "...individuals holding false beliefs about #COVID19 are more likely to have negative perceptions of government transparency." AND They "rely on their false beliefs" to justify that perception. https://t.co/OFzAvI7hVg

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Source alerts can reduce the harms of foreign disinformation | HKS Misinformation Review - 3 year(s) ago

Social media companies have begun to use content-based alerts in their efforts to combat mis- and disinformation, including fact-check corrections and warnings of possible falsity, such as “This claim about election fraud is disputed.” Another harm reduction tool, source alerts, can be effective when a hidden foreign hand is known or suspected. This paper demonstrates […]

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  Source alerts can reduce the harms of disinformation https://t.co/Qsx1oFvtlI by @alwintersieck, et al. via @ShorensteinCtr "...source alerts can reduce belief in the meme’s claim & mitigate social media users’ tendency to spread the disinformation online & offline..."

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Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques | HKS Misinformation Review - 3 year(s) ago

This essay argues that the recent scholarship on misinformation and fake news suffers from a lack of historical contextualization. The fact that misinformation scholarship has, by and large, failed to engage with the history of propaganda and with how propaganda has been studied by media and communication researchers is an empirical detriment to it, and […]

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  "Propaganda, #misinformation, & histories of media techniques" https://t.co/c7p8LAtC5d v @ShorensteinCtr Misinformation research "suffers from a lack of historical contextualization." Need to "take a normative position on what a good information environment would look like..."

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COVID-19 misinformation and the 2020 U.S. presidential election | HKS Misinformation Review - 3 year(s) ago

Voting is the defining act for a democracy. However, voting is only meaningful if public deliberation is grounded in veritable and equitable information. This essay investigates the politicization of public health practices during the Democratic primaries in the context of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, using a dataset of more than 67 million tweets. We […]

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  Interesting: "#COVID19 #misinformation and the 2020 U.S. presidential election" https://t.co/r23fw5uolN by @thatmchen, @emilio__ferrara, et al. "A small but dense cluster of conservative users pushes misinformation about the inefficacy of masks and potential for voter fraud."