All disinformation is local: A reflection on the need and possibility of measuring impact
Irene Pasquetto
Volume 1, Issue 6 Editorial
By Irene Pasquetto Image by siora photography on unsplashThe title “All disinformation is local” was inspired by a tweet of Joan Donovan, on September 29th 2020
On September 1st, the leadership of the HKS Misinformation Review officially passed to Dr.
Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified
Richard Rogers
Ushering in the contemporary ‘fake news’ crisis, Craig Silverman of Buzzfeed News reported that it outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the three months prior to the 2016 US presidential elections. Here the report’s methods and findings are revisited for 2020.
Overcoming resistance to COVID-19 vaccine adoption: How affective dispositions shape views of science and medicine
John E. Newhagen and Erik P. Bucy
Health experts worry that a COVID-19 vaccine boycott could inhibit reaching “herd immunity,” and their concerns have only grown as the pandemic has spread. Concern has largely focused on anti-vaccine protestors, who captured headlines as they stood side by side with Tea Party activists and armed militia groups demonstrating against the quarantine in April and May of this year.
Research note: The spread of political misinformation on online subcultural platforms
Anthony G. Burton and Dimitri Koehorst
This research note explores the extent to which misinformation and other types of “junk” content are spread on political boards and forums on 4chan and Reddit. Our findings suggest that these userbases are impervious to the appeal of low-quality “pink slime” news sites with algorithmically generated conservative talking points masquerading as journalism.