I find that propagation of disinformation through social media drives domestic terrorism. Using mediation tests I also verify that disinformation disseminated through social media increases domestic terrorism by, among other processes, enhancing political polarization within society.doi:10.1080/17467586.2021.1895263James A. PiazzaDynamics of...
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Future research could further explore the pervasiveness and strength of this notion of anthropocentrism in the context of journalism and beyond. It suggests that explicitly and ethically labeling AI-generated content may be a key step toward combating AI-generated misinformation and disinformation. Our ...
Psychological and clinical profiling evidence of fake news consumers 2023, Personality and Individual Differences Citation Excerpt : The implications of these findings for the clinical practice of psychology and psychiatry are discussed and interpreted below. The observed relationship between fake news and ...
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has caused a huge backlash from businesses around the world, which has resulted in a laundry list of consumer products and services pulling out of both Russia and its ally Belarus. Last weekReutersrevealed that Meta was taking a temporary stance on how it’s ad...
and relevant prior knowledge. In the real world, however, people have access to outside resources to evaluate information. In three experiments, we tested whether affording the option to search for relevant online information following exposure to inaccurate statements would reduce reproductions of ...
President Trump had the audacity to suggest — on social media, no less — that we're on the verge of $2 gas. Cue the blue-check meltdown: "Disinformation!" "It's impossible!" "He's lying!" But here's the problem with that narrative: he's not wrong. Let's check the scoreboard...
Politicians at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called for censorship, in the form of tackling so-called “misinformation,”“disinformation,” and “hate speech” online, and voted in favor of a report on social media content regulation. This follows the European Union...
disinformationThis study investigated whether exposure to fake news leads to more confusion about public affairs and how SNS news use and characteristics of SNSs – network size, political heterogeneity and political expertise of networks – are associated with exposure to fake news and the confusion ...
An online experiment tested the effects of "fake news" labels as discounting cues on individuals' ability to correctly identify disinformation and their motivations to authenticate it with other credible sources. Results showed main effects of this "fake news" cue in online comments on participants'...