supporting policy-making for combating misinformation: a) creating a trusted network of experts and collaborators, b … misinformation. This new context demands new social media policies that can aid policymakers in making evidence-based decisions for … combating misinformation online. This paper reports on data collected from policymakers in Austria, Greece, and Sweden, using …

misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a hard-to-reach population - India's slum residents. We randomly allocate …

Social media are at the center of countless debates on polarization, misinformation, and even the state of democracy in … a detrimental effect in terms of misinformation – crowding-out the truth – and polarization. Besides increasing actual …

health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative … significantly reduces misinformation carrying in-group salience, highlighting the role of social proximity in fighting … misinformation. …

We study the impact of bots on social learning in a social network setting. Regular agents receive independent noisy … signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They na¨?vely update beliefs by repeatedly … taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. Bots are agents in the network that spread fake news by disseminating biased …

Previous research has extensively investigated why users spread misinformation online, while less attention has been … semantically identical content, either affirming accurate information ("It is TRUE that p") or refuting misinformation ("It is … areas such as health-related misinformation and harmful speech. …

We develop a model of misinformation wherein users' decisions to verify and share news of unknown truthfulness interact … intended to combat misinformation that are in place currently, stressing how these may nontrivially interact with users …