Misinformation in and about science

JD West, CT Bergstrom - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
misinformation. Most of the research efforts and interventions examine broad, public consumption
of misinformation… We look at the ways that misinformation can travel within science due …

Political misinformation

J Jerit, Y Zhao - Annual Review of Political Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
… We begin by defining political misinformation and … discuss the psychological origins of
misinformation, focusing on the … Next, we canvass the literature on how to correct misinformation

Misinformation

P Godfrey-Smith - Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1989 - cambridge.org
It is well known that informational theories of representation have trouble accounting for
error. Informational semantics is a family of theories attempting a naturalistic, unashamedly …

Misinformation on misinformation: Conceptual and methodological challenges

S Altay, M Berriche, A Acerbi - Social media+ society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… identify six misconceptions about misinformation and highlight the … misinformation. First,
scientists focus on social media because it is methodologically convenient, but misinformation

Online misinformation about climate change

KMI Treen, HTP Williams… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… on social media, and examining whether misinformation extends to climate alarmism, as …
of misinformation and disinformation and defines disinformation to be a subset of misinformation

[PDF][PDF] Misinformation and how to correct it

J Cook, U Ecker, S Lewandowsky - Emerging trends in the social and …, 2015 - cssn.org
Misinformation by definition does not accurately reflect the true state of the world. In the
present context, we apply the term misinformation to information that is initially presented as true …

The spreading of misinformation online

M Del Vicario, A Bessi, F Zollo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… In this work, we address the determinants governing misinformation spreading through a
thorough quantitative analysis. In particular, we focus on how Facebook users consume …

(Why) is misinformation a problem?

Z Adams, M Osman, C Bechlivanidis… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… In our concluding section, we discuss whether the efforts to reduce misinformation are
proportionate to the actual or rather the perceived scale of the problem of misinformation. We also …

Misinformation as a misunderstood challenge to public health

BG Southwell, J Niederdeppe, JN Cappella… - American journal of …, 2019 - ajpmonline.org
… 1− 4 Misinformation is false or inaccurate information … , and yet much discussion about
misinformation has focused on … of misinformation as a uniform and acute threat, misinformation is …

[HTML][HTML] Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public

S Van Der Linden - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
… of misinformation 23 but for the purpose of this Review, I will simply define misinformation in
its … Although disinformation is often differentiated from misinformation insofar as it involves a …