Misinformation such as fake news and rumors is a serious threat for information ecosystems
and public trust. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has great potential to …

Influencers are omnipresent on social media platforms. They occupy important digital real
estate across a range of topical domains including beauty, fashion, and gaming. While …

Affordances are the perception of what a technical artifact can do. They bridge a technically-
determinist perspective with social constructivist theory, acknowledging the material aspects …

This special issue on 'Influencer Marketing: Interdisciplinary and Socio-Cultural
Perspectives' aims to discuss, problematise and stimulate debate on how influencer …

This introduction for the special issue “Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor”
carves out a specific area of inquiry within the ever-growing field of disinformation studies …

Social media platforms enable largely unrestricted many-to-many communication. In times of
crisis, they offer a space for collective sense-making and give rise to new social phenomena …

As the social media landscape undergoes broad transformation for the first time in over a
decade, with alternative platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads emerging where X …

This article examines the circulation of unverified and misleading information during the
2023 Australian Voice to Parliament referendum, focusing on X (formerly Twitter). Adapting …

Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active
area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 US midterm elections, one …

Social media's pivotal role in catalyzing social movements is widely acknowledged across
scientific disciplines. Past research has predominantly explored social media's ability to …