Real-time assessment of motives for sharing and creating content among highly active Twitter users: http://osf.io/jf8w9/
Very excited to finally share our preprint after three years in the making! With @ruben.the100.ci@brionyswire.bsky.social@anaskozyreva.bsky.social@michaelgeers.bsky.social@stefanherzog.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/ps...
Who falls for online misinformation? A meta-analysis on demographic and psychological factors impacting misinformation susceptibility. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...@alantump.bsky.social@lorenzspreen.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig, Anton Gollwitzer, @RalfKurvers 1/n
Can we wrap our heads around the fact that mis/information (of varying levels of epistemic quality) can be a symptom *and* a cause, ... (1/3)
Happy 2024 everyone, hopefully the year of the DSA and that it finally brings *some* transparency and clarity to this hugely complex machinery that the big platforms have built and how it interacts with society.
Even if it often seems so: the self-organization of digital public discourse makes its dynamics more chaotic (with algorithms as catalysts), but they are not random. The mechanisms, goals and directions they follow can be measured better than ever and understood, which is urgently needed.
Christmas came early: Huge THANK YOU to Stiftung Mercator for funding our DSA40 Collaboratory, in which we will explore data access under the #DigitalServicesAct in the next years! 🚀🎉🤶🏻🥂🚀 More about this soon! @dscheykopp.bsky.social #commsky #polisky
We seem to be caught in a cycle where people create technologies that evolve into political manipulation machines (in part due to design choices), and then get boxed in (by the manipulators) to those designs, because to even talk about addressing the issues is framed as “bias” and “censorship”.
Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information. 👇🧵1/
Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.
Very cool project about kids' experiences with misinfo and how to empower them - and very nice colleagues all over DDC - come work with us!