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Our new public report from the Everyday Misinformation Project. Based on a nationally-representative survey of 2,000 people, the findings cast serious doubt on whether these tags are currently effective as misinformation warnings. Meta can do better.
In this guest post, Mohamed Zayani (Georgetown University) and Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern University) explain the argument of their new book, out now in my series with Oxford University Press.
Most research into online misinformation has investigated its direct effects—the impact it may have on citizens’ beliefs and behaviour. Much less attention has been paid to how citizens themselves make sense of misinformation as a broader social problem, even though such attitudes are likely to shape how people respond to anti-misinformation interventions.
In this article we integrated some select theories of narrative, identity, cultural capital, and social distinction to examine how people construct the problem of misinformation and their orientation to it.
Hot off the press… the latest publication from the Everyday Misinformation Project, out now in Media, Culture & Society.
We have a new opening at Loughborough for a postdoc on the Everyday Misinformation Project.
In this guest post, the latest in a series by Oxford Studies in Digital Politics authors, William H. Dutton explains the big idea underlying his new book.
This is the latest research article from the Everyday Misinformation Project that I’m leading. The project, which is funded by the Leverhulme trust, began in April 2021 and runs until March 2024.
For this piece, we explored a previously-unexamined practice our fieldwork uncovered: when users create “group rules” to prevent misinformation entering their everyday interactions.