This review examines the alleged crisis of trust in environmental science and its impact on
public opinion, policy decisions in the context of democratic governance, and the interaction …

Despite the growing scholarship concerning mis-and disinformation, research has yet to
assess how journalism tackles conspiracy theories in settings where news organizations …

Fake news is one of the biggest challenging issues in today's technological world and has a
huge impact on the population's decision-making and way of thinking. Disinformation can be …

More than a year after the introduction of vaccines against COVID-19, inoculation remains
inconsistent and variable across countries. In this paper, we introduce a multi-item scale of …

Background Scientific misinformation is a much-discussed topic, and the COVID-19 crisis
has highlighted the importance of reliability in science and research. However, limiting …

This article investigates harmful political content in public WhatsApp and Facebook groups
of the radical Right in Brazil. Considering harmful political content as that which generates …

Today, platforms like YouTube provide a fertile environment for conspiracy theory
communities, which can build their own fan bases and attract the attention of a wider …

As grandes catástrofes sociais do século XX, como duas guerras mundiais, o holocausto, a
bomba atômica, a Guerra Fria, entre outros acontecimentos que impactaram o mundo …

Abstract On May 4, 2020, filmmaker Mikki Willis released a 26-min documentary-form video
titled Plandemic on Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms. Plandemic is a rare …

Vielfach wurde medial und in gesellschaftlichen Diskussionen aufgrund dieser Dynamiken
geäußert, dass es zu einem Anstieg des Verschwörungsglaubens ge [177] kommen sei. Die …