Why do people share political information and misinformation online? Developing a bottom-up descriptive framework

R Perach, L Joyner, D Husbands… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media users are key actors in the spreading of misleading or incorrect information. To
develop an integrative parsimonious summary of social media users' own accounts of …

Between urgency and data quality: assessing the FAIRness of data in social science research on the COVID-19 pandemic

V Batzdorfer, W Zenk-Möltgen, L Young… - Research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility
of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the …

The role of trust and attitudes toward democracy in the dissemination of disinformation—a comparative analysis of six democracies

E Humprecht - Digital Journalism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Trust lies at the heart of the disinformation crisis, as citizens must decide which narratives to
follow and whether to accept “alternative truths.” Therefore, trust in institutions that publish …

How people process different types of health misinformation: Roles of content falsity and evidence type

X Zhao, SJ Tsang - Health Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Emerging communication technologies have seen the proliferation of misleading claims,
untruthful narratives, and conspiracies. To understand how people perceive and act on …

Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media

L Joyner, T Buchanan, O Yetkili - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The spread of false and misleading information on social media is largely dependent on
human action. Understanding the factors that lead social media users to amplify (or indeed …

Who corrects misinformation online? Self-perceived media literacy and the moderating role of reflective judgment

P Borah, KJ Lorenzano - Online Information Review, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Purpose: The main purpose of the study is to understand the factors that facilitate
correction behavior among individuals. In this study the authors examine the impact of self …

[HTML][HTML] Distorting the truth versus blatant lies: The effects of different degrees of deception in domestic and foreign political deepfakes

M Hameleers, TGLA van der Meer, T Dobber - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Political deepfakes are regarded as an urgent threat to democracy. However, we know little
about how different degrees of deception in deepfakes affect recipients' credibility …

# Cancelled: A qualitative content analysis of cancel culture in the YouTube beauty community

F Geusens, G Ouvrein, S Remen - The Social Science Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new form of social activism, known as cancel culture, is emerging online. This
concept originally referred to forms of calling out others to educate them on the …

COVID-19 misinformation on YouTube: An analysis of its impact and subsequent online information searches for verification

SH Kessler, E Humprecht - Digital Health, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives COVID-19 vaccination misinformation on YouTube can have negative effects on
users. Some, after being exposed to such misinformation, may search online for information …

Understanding the health misinformation dissemination on Twitter: The perspective of tweets-comments consistency

Y Zhang, X Zheng, C Wu, Y Zhou, H Fan - Technology in Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigated users' health misinformation dissemination behaviors from the
perspective of tweets-comments consistency. Specifically, we proposed a model that …