Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Large language models have abilities in creating high-volume human-like texts and can be
used to generate persuasive misinformation. However, the risks remain under-explored. To …

Developing effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …

There is a great deal of interest in the role that partisanship, and cross-party animosity in
particular, plays in interactions on social media. Most prior research, however, must infer …

The spread of misinformation online is a global problem that requires global solutions. To
that end, we conducted an experiment in 16 countries across 6 continents (N= 34,286; …

When users on social media share content without considering its veracity, they may
unwittingly be spreading misinformation. In this work, we investigate the design of …

The spread of online misinformation threatens public health, democracy, and the broader
society. While professional fact-checkers form the first line of defense by fact-checking …

Misinformation can come directly from public figures and organizations (referred to here as
“elites”). Here, we develop a tool for measuring Twitter users' exposure to misinformation …

We present a model of online content sharing where agents sequentially observe an article
and decide whether to share it with others. This content may or may not contain …