Quantifying the “misinformation beat”: 38 years of coverage in major U.S. daily newspapers
Bryce Greene, Brian P. Harper and Christena E. Nippert-Eng
Media have made misinformation conversations part of daily life. We looked at nearly four decades’ worth of news stories about misinformation to see exactly what this coverage looked like. We searched five major U.S. daily newspapers for articles containing the misinformation-related terms—disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theory, fake news, and propaganda—then extracted words in proximity to these key terms to identify associative patterns.
On the same page? Experts are mostly, but not always aligned about disinformation in times of generative AI
Teresa Weikmann, Ferre Wouters, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese, Brahim Zarouali and Michaël Opgenhaffen
We conducted an expert survey of almost a hundred academics, fact checkers, and journalists who actively work towards mitigating disinformation and providing policy advice in the European context to examine whether they share views on generative artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in disinformation.