One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Vaccinations are without doubt one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, and
there is hope that they can constitute a solution to halt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …

This review aims (a) to investigate the motivations to share fake news on Social Media
Platforms (SMPs) according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT);(b) to identify the …

Digital media, while opening a vast array of avenues for lay people to effectively engage
with news, information and debates about important science and health issues, have …

High uptake of vaccinations is essential in fighting infectious diseases, including severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the ongoing …

During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 26-min documentary entitled
Plandemic was released online and fanatically shared via Twitter and other major social …

Fact-checking verifies a multitude of claims and remains a promising solution to fight fake
news. The spread of rumors, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories online is evident in times of …

Few studies have mined social media platforms to assess environmental concerns. In this
study, Twitter was scraped to obtain a~ 140,000 tweet dataset related specifically to marine …

As the anti-vaccination movement is spreading around the world, this paper addresses the
ever more urgent need for health professionals, communicators and policy-makers to grasp …

As the COVID-19 pandemic has sadly shown, the decision against vaccination is often
linked to political ideologies and populist messages among specific segments of the …