Interventions to counter misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and applications to the Global South

RA Blair, J Gottlieb, B Nyhan, L Paler, P Argote… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
We synthesize evidence from 176 experimental estimates of 11 interventions intended to
combat misinformation in the Global North and Global South, which we classify as …

[HTML][HTML] Effective correction of misinformation

T Prike, UKH Ecker - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews correction effectiveness, highlighting which factors matter, which do not,
and where further research is needed. To boost effectiveness, we recommend using …

Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulation

The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. A wide range of individual …

<? covid19?> A Relationship-Centered and Culturally Informed Approach to Studying Misinformation on COVID-19

P Malhotra - Social Media+ Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The panic and anxiety that accompanies a global pandemic is only exacerbated by the
spread of misinformation. For COVID-19, in many parts of the world, such misinformation is …

Researching and countering misinformation in the Global South

S Badrinathan, S Chauchard - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
Scholarly literature on misinformation has insufficiently captured the experience of the
majority of the world's population: those in the Global South. Findings from this literature are …

When fact-checking is not WEIRD: Negotiating consensus outside Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic countries

O Vinhas, M Bastos - The International Journal of Press …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This study unpacks the emerging framework of detection, verification, and correction of
falsehoods developed by fact-checkers outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and …

Unraveling WhatsApp group dynamics to understand the threat of misinformation in messaging apps

A Kalogeropoulos, P Rossini - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we present an analysis of distinctive WhatsApp uses with a focus on group
dynamics, and how they are correlated with exposure to, belief in, accidental, and …

Misinformation and support for vigilantism: An experiment in India and Pakistan

S BADRINATHAN, S CHAUCHARD… - … Political Science Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
Vigilante violence, often targeting religious and sectarian minorities and preceded by
unsubstantiated rumors, has taken the lives of many citizens in India and Pakistan in recent …

Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps

P Rossini, C Mont'Alverne… - Harvard Kennedy …, 2023 - strathprints.strath.ac.uk
The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent
consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic …

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

A Kozyreva, P Lorenz-Spreen, SM Herzog… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the …