Political Misinformation

Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon

This study investigated the cognitive processing of true and false political information. Specifically, it examined the impact of source credibility on the assessment of veracity when information comes from a polarizing source (Experiment 1), and effectiveness of explanations when they come from one's own political party or an opposition party (Experiment 2). These experiments were conducted pr...

"Everything I Disagree With is #FakeNews": Correlating Political Polarization and Spread of Misinformation

An important challenge in the process of tracking and detecting the dissemination of misinformation is to understand the gap in the political views between people that engage with the so called ”fake news”. A possible factor responsible for this gap is opinion polarization, which may prompt the general public to classify content that they disagree or want to discredit as fake. In this work, we ...

Correcting Mold Misinformation

The spread of misinformation

How does information behave? A recent controversial approach is to use ideas in evolutionary biology to study the spread of information. However, in order for the information to ‘evolve’, there has to be some mechanism for variation. This paper would explore the ideas of memes which use the evolutionary biology approach as well as the pitfalls in using this picture. Finally, we will focus our a...

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