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Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022

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. …

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Naϊve Learning in Social Networks with Fake News: Bots as a Singularity

Badri, Saeed; Heidergott, Bernd; Lindner, Ines - 2022

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 …

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Debunking "Fake News" on Social Media: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects of Fact Checking and Media Literacy Interventions

Berger, Lara Marie; Kerkhof, Anna; Mindl, Felix; … - 2023

We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the short- and longer-term effects of fact checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We show that the impact of fact checking is limited to the corrected fake news, whereas media literacy helps to distinguish between false and correct...

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Debunking "fake news" on social media: Short-term and longer-term effects of fact checking and media literacy interventions

Berger, Lara Marie; Kerkhof, Anna; Mindl, Felix; … - 2023

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Reducing misinformation: The role of confirmation frames in fact-checking interventions

Aruguete, Natalia; Batista, Flavia; Calvo, Ernesto; … - 2023

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. …

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Role of social media on Covid-19 pandemic

M., Gajapriya; Arivarasu, Lakshminarayanan; V., Geetha R. - In: Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1595-1605

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Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19 : an affordance and cognitive load perspective

Najmul Islam, A. K. M.; Laato, Samuli; Talukder, Md. Shamim - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 159 (2020), pp. 1-14

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Countering misinformation with targeted messages : experimental evidence using mobile phones

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2021

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

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Social noise and the impact of misinformation on COVID-19 preventive measures : comparative data analysis using Twitter masking hashtags

Alsaid, Manar; Madali, Nayana Pampapura - In: Journal of information & knowledge management : JIKM 21 (2022) 1, pp. 2240007-1-2240007-18

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Social media in Nigeria : a curse or blessing in time of COVID-19 and crisis situation? ; a behavioural perspective

Akinwale, Olusegun Emmanuel; Onokala, Uchechi C. - In: Entrepreneurship and post-pandemic future, (pp. 53-71). 2022

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