This study sets out to analyse the qualitative impact of fake news on racial, ethnic and sexual minority communities in Indonesia through the theory of gendered and stratified misinformation. Three research que
Therecentspreadof"fakenews"maymakeitseemlikemisinformationisarelativelymoderninvention.Butfalsehoods(假话)andwildclaimshavebeenpartofhumancultureforaboutaslongasit'sexisted.Thisisbecausemisinformationoriginateswith,andisspreadby,fellowhumans.Whenyou'veeverhadtocommunicateanimportant,butcomplex,issuetoageneralaudience...
Nonetheless, a few studies have shown evidence that fact-checkers can help lower an individual's susceptibility to believing false news and rumors. Our study builds on this research by examining the fact-checking inoculation effect on political misinformation (also known as "fake news") that ...
More so than many other domains, when studying fake news and misinformation it is often possible to combine traditional laboratory experiments with large-scale social media data [71,109]– or even to conduct actual field experiments on-platform [21,110,111]. Furthermore, these topics also ...
(2022) delved into the broader influence of social media on aspects of personal relationships, underscoring its profound impact on intimacy, psychological well-being, and parenting. Meanwhile, the business sector is not untouched. Kumar et al. (2022) explored the nexus between managerial decision-...
D The recent spread of “fake news" may make it seem like misinformation is a relatively modern invention. But falsehoods (假话) and wild claims have been part of human culture for about as long as it's existed. This is because misinformation originates with, and is spread by,fellow huma...
Misinformation and conspiracy theories swirl in wake of Trump assassination attempt The cumulative impact of the lies and distortions just keeps growing, such that Brill titled his new book "The Death of Truth." "There are facts," he said, "and it used to be in this world that people could...
Research question 2: How does misinformation spread in social networks? • Outline with greater clarity the conditions under which 'exposure' is more or less likely to lead to 'infection,' includ- ing the impact of repeated exposure, the micro-targeting of fake news on social media, contact...
The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformationFake newsinoculation theorymisinformationpost-truthinfluenceAlthough the effectiveness of inoculation as a strategy for promoting resistance to attitude change is fairly well established, the potential of inoculation messages to offer ...
a novel stochastic optimal control problem for stochastic differential equations with jumps, which is of independent interest. Experiments on two real-world datasets gathered from Twitter and Weibo show that our algorithm may be able to effectively reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation. ...