Information control on YouTube during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Yevgeniy Golovchenko, Kristina Aleksandrovna Pedersen, Jonas Skjold Raaschou-Pedersen and Anna Rogers
This research note investigates the aftermath of YouTube’s global ban on Russian state-affiliated media channels in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Using over 12 million YouTube comments across 40 Russian-language channels, we analyzed the effectiveness of the ban and the shifts in user activity before and after the platform’s intervention.
People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines
Sean Guo, Yiwen Zhong and Xiaoqing Hu
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) allows rapid creation of AI-synthesized images. In a pre-registered experiment, we examine how properties of AI-synthesized images influence belief in misinformation and memory for corrections. Realistic and probative (i.e., providing strong evidence) images predicted greater belief in false headlines.