Ahmad, Wajeeha; Sen, Ananya; Eesley, Charles E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be … countered. In this work, we show how online misinformation is largely financially sustained via advertising, examine how … misinformation. First, we find that advertising on misinformation outlets is pervasive for companies across several industries and is …