One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Political fake news continues to be a threat to contemporary societies, negatively affecting
public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the …

Many blame partisan news media for polarization in America. This paper examines the
effects of liberal, conservative, and centrist news on affective and attitude polarization. To …

A potentially powerful method of social-scientific data collection and investigation has been
created by an unexpected institution: the law. Article 15 of the EU's 2018 General Data …

Research using large-scale data on individuals' internet use has provided vital information
about the scope and nature of exposure to misinformation online. However, most prior work …

Current interventions to combat misinformation, including fact-checking, media literacy tips
and media coverage of misinformation, may have unintended consequences for democracy …

Efforts to combat misinformation have intensified in recent years. In parallel, our scientific
understanding of misinformation and of our information ecosystem has improved. Here, I …

Most sociophysics opinion dynamics simulations assume that contacts between agents lead
to greater similarity of opinions, and that there is a tendency for agents having similar …

Polarization, misinformation, declining trust, and wavering support for democratic norms are
pressing threats to the US Exposure to verified and balanced news may make citizens more …

Healthy news consumption requires limited exposure to unreliable content and ideological
diversity in the sources consumed. There are two challenges to this normative expectation …