Despite the mass availability of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, many Americans
are still reluctant to take a vaccine as an outcome from exposure to misinformation …

Purpose This study examines the role of crowd wisdom in misinformation correction. Going
beyond fact-checking, we investigate the mechanisms underlying laypeople's participation …

The 2020 US election witnessed a surge of false claims on social media platforms asserting
electoral fraud. Consequently, we ask the question, would greater online political …

How does online misinformation affect citizen's likelihood to vote? The risk of fake news on
social media does not only lie in the false narratives spread by manipulated content but also …

Today's technological advances have created new channels for the collaboration of local
governments with citizens, who can perform the role of both partner and customer in public …

Most current studies examining the mobilizing or reinforcing role of social media for political
participation focus on gender and socioeconomic stratifications and are based in Western …

The widespread use of smartphones in Nigeria has resulted in the adoption of social media
(SM) and instant messengers (IM) for communication and various creative purposes. These …

Going by population and the size of its economy, Nigeria remains the largest country in
Africa and the most populous Black nation in the world. This chapter provides a critical …

Recent literature has emphasized studying the effectiveness of soft propaganda. Unlike hard
propaganda, soft propaganda frequently appears in the form of entertainment, such as …

The power of social media, and especially Twitter, in public opinion formation for political
matters has been extensively studied. In several cases, such as the US presidential …