This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories
during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which …

This chapter reviews digital political communication over the past 25 years, analyses the
core characteristics of the fourth wave and examines the changes that communication has …

This study unpacks the emerging framework of detection, verification, and correction of
falsehoods developed by fact-checkers outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and …

This study explores the role of political information seeking on social media and perceived
exposure to misinformation in influencing online political engagement. A survey …

While research on misinformation in Africa has increased in recent years, and despite a
growing body of theoretical and empirical work that considers the role of governments …

Experts have ranked Taiwan as the number one country regarding the exposure to
disinformation. This assessment is not surprising as many exposed disinformation cases can …

A growing body of work in journalism studies focuses on understanding audiences'
relationship with news and misinformation. This article adds to this area of inquiry by …

Drawing on a critical review of the existing literature on computational propaganda and
disinformation, and employing a three-stage process—addressing the “New Wine in Old …

Social media has become central to how political parties plan, organize, and coordinate
electoral campaigns in Africa, with WhatsApp increasingly the preferred medium. How, we …

Based on virtual ethnography and online interviews, we provide new evidence of how fact-
checking organizations based in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia responded to the …