The escalating prevalence of disinformation, or “fake news,” on social media platforms
represents a growing societal concern with far-reaching implications. Its ubiquitous …

During the battle between fake news and truth in Twitter, users of each side take different
roles such as tweeting the original content or retweeting the published content, while some …

Social media has triggered an increase in fake news spread about different aspects of
modern lives, society, politics, societal changes, etc., and has also affected companies' …

The study analyses the epistemologies of online breaking news, focusing on the distinctive
epistemic practices and challenges in the production of continuous news updates and …

Disinformation has become a core concept in communications research, related to media,
technological and political phenomena that complexify its definition and diagnosis. Although …

Based on a study of US-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about
the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this article explores the …

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the
emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a …

Over the past five years there has been an explosion of mis-and disinformation, with
negative social and political impacts felt around the globe. The spread of misinformation has …

As fake news elicits an emotional response from users, whose attention is then monetised,
political advertising has a significant influence on its production and dissemination …

COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science
and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it …