Media and Communication,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13
Published: Dec. 19, 2024
The
mixing
of
misinformation
with
high-quality
news
and
information
on
social
media
has
reinvigorated
interest
in
the
value
literacy
(NL)
to
build
audience
resiliency
misinformation.
Optimizing
NL
messages
for
environments—where
they
may
be
seen
alongside
misinformation—allows
these
reach
audiences
when
are
most
likely
benefit
from
them.
Using
a
2
(NL
video
vs.
control
video)
x
(sunscreen
promotion
sunscreen
online
survey
experiment
(<em>N</em>
=
780),
we
examine
whether
exposure
an
improves
perceived
personal
skills
literacy,
as
well
enables
participants
recognize
avoid
engaging
Our
findings
suggest
that
after
watching
video,
individuals
valued
more
but
their
self-perceived
did
not
improve.
Furthermore,
made
rate
second
less
credible
reduced
engagement
it
no
matter
contained
or
quality
information.
This
research
several
important
implications.
While
could
protect
by
discrediting
decreasing
misinformation,
do
so
at
expense
We
discuss
difficulty
designing
lead
people
appropriately
skeptical
able
discern
between
high-
low-quality
health
information,
rather
than
cynically
disengaging
content
altogether.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Sept. 2, 2024
Abstract
Recent
advances
in
technology
for
hyper-realistic
visual
and
audio
effects
provoke
the
concern
that
deepfake
videos
of
political
speeches
will
soon
be
indistinguishable
from
authentic
video.
We
conduct
5
pre-registered
randomized
experiments
with
N
=
2215
participants
to
evaluate
how
accurately
humans
distinguish
real
fabrications
across
base
rates
misinformation,
sources,
question
framings
without
priming,
media
modalities.
do
not
find
misinformation
have
statistically
significant
on
discernment.
deepfakes
produced
by
state-of-the-art
text-to-speech
algorithms
are
harder
discern
than
same
voice
actor
audio.
Moreover
all
framings,
we
information
enables
more
accurate
discernment
text
alone:
human
relies
something
is
said,
audio-visual
cues,
what
speech
content.
Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
386(6725), P. 991 - 996
Published: Nov. 28, 2024
We
tested
a
hypothesis
that
misinformation
exploits
outrage
to
spread
online,
examining
generalizability
across
multiple
platforms,
time
periods,
and
classifications
of
misinformation.
Outrage
is
highly
engaging
need
not
be
accurate
achieve
its
communicative
goals,
making
it
an
attractive
signal
embed
in
In
eight
studies
used
US
data
from
Facebook
(1,063,298
links)
Twitter
(44,529
tweets,
24,007
users)
two
behavioral
experiments
(1475
participants),
we
show
(i)
sources
evoke
more
than
do
trustworthy
sources;
(ii)
facilitates
the
sharing
at
least
as
strongly
news;
(iii)
users
are
willing
share
outrage-evoking
without
reading
first.
Consequently,
may
difficult
mitigate
with
interventions
assume
want
information.
Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
5
Published: Jan. 14, 2025
Researchers
need
reliable
and
valid
tools
to
identify
cases
of
untrustworthy
information
when
studying
the
spread
misinformation
on
digital
platforms.
A
common
approach
is
assess
trustworthiness
sources
rather
than
individual
pieces
content.
One
most
widely
used
comprehensive
databases
for
source
ratings
provided
by
NewsGuard.
Since
creating
database
in
2019,
NewsGuard
has
continually
added
new
reassessed
existing
ones.
While
initially
focused
only
US,
expanded
include
from
other
countries.
In
addition
ratings,
contains
various
contextual
assessments
sources,
which
are
less
often
contemporary
research
misinformation.
this
work,
we
provide
an
analysis
content
database,
focusing
temporal
stability
completeness
its
across
countries,
as
well
usefulness
political
orientation
topics
studies.
We
find
that
coverage
have
remained
relatively
stable
since
2022,
particularly
France,
Italy,
Germany,
Canada,
with
US-based
consistently
scoring
lower
those
Additional
covered
provides
valuable
assets
characterizing
beyond
trustworthiness.
By
evaluating
over
time
potential
pitfalls
compromise
validity
using
a
tool
quantifying
information,
if
dichotomous
"trustworthy"/"untrustworthy"
labels
used.
Lastly,
recommendations
media
how
avoid
these
discuss
appropriate
use
source-level
approaches
general.
Annals of the International Communication Association,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: March 14, 2025
Abstract
Since
the
2016
U.S.
election
and
U.K.
Brexit
campaign,
computational
propaganda
has
become
an
important
research
topic
in
communication,
political
social
science.
Recently,
it
clearer
that
doesn’t
start
from
a
clean
slate
is
not
precisely
bound
to
single
issues
or
campaigns.
Instead,
needs
be
looked
at
as
complex
phenomenon
global
environment
of
co-evolving
events,
emerging
technologies,
policies
legal
frameworks,
dynamics.
Here,
we
review
literature
on
this
perspective
theorize
evolving
longitudinal
nature
campaigns
through
lens
relational
Our
conceptual
contribution
forms
basis
for
new
kind
empirical
aware
interdependencies,
feedback
cycles
structural
conditions
are
elusive
when
focusing
individual
short
time
frames.
