Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

Yes but there are innumerable alt networks ready to spin every trend during the “naturally” confusing sense making stages. bsky.app/profile/sean...

We often see the problem of misinformation described as an issue of bad “facts” — but our research suggests the problem is not just one of bad facts, but faulty frames.

This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. I'm really interested in details of the frame updating aspect because it feels adjacent to questions I'm interested in around motivation. Which of your papers would I go to to dig into the details of this?

Thank you for this really interesting take. I wonder how this intersects with current public science communication/ outreach ideas/tools. E.g. how can we use hands on science communication to alter the framework of peoples’ ideas of science…