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Attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines may have “spilled over” to other, unrelated vaccines along party lines in the United States
Mark LaCour and Zebulon Bell
This study used data from pre- and post-COVID surveys to examine vaccine attitudes in the United States. We found evidence consistent with an ideological “spillover” effect: Liberals’ attitudes became more positive towards non-COVID vaccines (flu, MMR, HPV, chickenpox) and conservatives’ attitudes became more negative.
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How do social media users and journalists express concerns about social media misinformation? A computational analysis
Jianing Li and Michael W. Wagner
This article describes partisan-based, accuracy-based, and action-based discussions through which U.S. social media users and journalists express concerns about social media misinformation. While platform policy stands out as the most highly discussed topic by both social media users and journalists, much of it is cast through a party politics lens.
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Taking the power back: How diaspora community organizations are fighting misinformation spread on encrypted messaging apps
Joao V. S. Ozawa, Samuel Woolley and Josephine Lukito
We applied a mixed-methods approach with the goal of understanding how Latinx and Asian diaspora communities perceive and experience the spread of misinformation through encrypted messaging apps in the United States. Our study consists of 12 in-depth interviews with leaders of relevant diaspora community organizations and a computer-assisted content analysis of 450,300 messages published on Telegram between July 2020 and December 2021.
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Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?
Rongwei Tang, Emily K. Vraga, Leticia Bode and Shelley Boulianne
Observed corrections of misinformation on social media can encourage more accurate beliefs, but for these benefits to occur, corrections must happen. By exploring people’s perceptions of witnessing and performing corrections on social media, we find that many people say they observe and perform corrections across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
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The spread of synthetic media on X
Giulio Corsi, Bill Marino and Willow Wong
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have introduced new complexities and risks to information environments, as synthetic media may facilitate the spread of misinformation and erode public trust. This study examines the prevalence and characteristics of synthetic media on social media platform X from December 2022 to September 2023.
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#SaveTheChildren: A pilot study of a social media movement co-opted by conspiracy theorists
Katherine M. FitzGerald and Timothy Graham
In a preliminary analysis of 121,984 posts from X (formerly known as Twitter) containing the hashtag #SaveTheChildren, we found that conspiratorial posts received more engagement than authentic hashtag activism between January 2022 and March 2023. Conspiratorial posts received twice the number of reposts as non-conspiratorial content.
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