Browsing HKS Misinformation Review by Issue Date

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    • Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news 

      Nkonde, M.; Rodriguez, M. Y.; Cortana, L.; Mukogosi, J. K.; King, S.; Serrato, R.; Martinez, N.; Drummer, M.; Lewis, A.; Malik, M.M. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      In this essay, we conduct a descriptive content analysis from a sample of a dataset made up of 534 thousand scraped tweets, supplemented with access to 1.36 million tweets from the Twitter firehose, from accounts that used ...

    • Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election 

      Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, D.G. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election saw an unprecedented number of false claims alleging election fraud and arguing that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the election. Here we report a survey exploring belief in these ...

    • Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation 

      Nikolov, D.; Flammini, A.; Menczer, F. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter. While our results confirm prior findings that online misinformation ...

    • The presence of unexpected biases in online fact-checking 

      Park, S.; Park, J.Y.; Kang, J.; Cha, M. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      The increasing amount of information online makes it challenging to judge what to believe or discredit. Fact-checking unverified claims shared on platforms, like social media, can play a critical role in correcting misbeliefs. ...

    • Lateral reading: College students learn to critically evaluate internet sources in an online course 

      Breakstone, J.; Smith, M.; Connors, P.; Ortega, T.; Kerr, D.; Wineburg, S. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has forced college students to spend more time online. Yet many studies show that college students struggle to discern fact from fiction on the Internet. A small body of research suggests that students ...

    • Research note: Bolsonaro’s firehose: How Covid-19 disinformation on WhatsApp was used to fight a government political crisis in Brazil 

      Soares, F.B.; Recuero, R.; Volcan, T.; Fagundes, G.; Sodré, G. (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2021)
      Brazil has one of the highest rates of cases and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the world. Two factors contributed to the high rates: the Brazilian government underestimated the pandemic and a large amount of disinformation ...