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

Alarmist narratives about the flow of misinformation and its negative consequences have
gained traction in recent years. If these fears are to some extent warranted, the scientific …

The threat of disinformation features strongly in public discourse, but scientific findings
remain conflicted about disinformation effects and reach. Accordingly, indiscriminate …

We explore the potential of automated online content moderation through Large Language
Models (LLMs) as a remedy to the overwhelming surge of online content that fact-checking …

The use of individual-level browsing data, that is, the records of a person's visits to online
content through a desktop or mobile browser, is of increasing importance for social …

In two online experiments (N= 2,735), we investigated whether forced exposure to high
proportions of false news could have deleterious effects by sowing confusion and fueling …

Fact-checking remains one of the most prominent ways to counter misinformation.
Increasingly so, however, fact-checkers are challenged to match the speed of (mis) …

The debate on whether and why misinformation is bad primarily focuses on the spread of
false beliefs as its main harm. From the assumption that misinformation primarily causes …

Media literacy tips typically encourage people to be skeptical of the news despite the small
prevalence of false news in Western democracies. Would such tips be effective if they …

It is well known that disinformation often comes from the top (Bovet and Makse 2019), but
there 15 is a'new'group of political elites—social media influencers (SMIs, cf. Suuronen et al …