Treating the COVID-19 infodemic as an epidemic may help combat viral misinformation
The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Social media users and conservatives were more likely to spread to COVID-19 conspiracy theories
The findings appeared in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Preoccupation with online partisan news outlets may result in distrust of mass media
The negative impact on the media was evident even nearly one year…
New research digs into the combating of conspiracy theories during a pandemic
The new findings provide a contrasting standpoint to prior studies that have…
A US-based study probed the spread of political and pandemic propaganda on Facebook’s advertising network
In the findings, as published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, researchers…
Influence trolls: Inside 4chan and the GNAA
Inside one of the oldest and most powerful influence trolls.
