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Special Issue: The social, ethical, economic, and political implications of misinformation. Guest Editors: Giandomenico Di Domenico, Maria Teresa Borges-Tiago, Giampaolo Viglia, Yang Alice Cheng

Guest editorial: The social, ethical, economic and political implications of misinformation

Giandomenico Di Domenico; Maria Teresa Borges-Tiago; Giampaolo Viglia; Yang Alice Cheng
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Engaging with deepfakes: a meta-synthesis from the perspective of social shaping of technology theory

Pramukh Nanjundaswamy Vasist; Satish Krishnan
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Examining the motivations of sharing political deepfake videos: the role of political brand hate and moral consciousness

Isha Sharma; Kokil Jain; Abhishek Behl; Abdullah Baabdullah; Mihalis Giannakis; Yogesh Dwivedi
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Norms or fun? The influence of ethical concerns and perceived enjoyment on the regulation of deepfake information

Minghui Li; Yan Wan
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“Is COVID-19 a hoax?”: auditing the quality of COVID-19 conspiracy-related information and misinformation in Google search results in four languages

Shakked Dabran-Zivan; Ayelet Baram-Tsabari; Roni Shapira; Miri Yitshaki; Daria Dvorzhitskaia; Nir Grinberg
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Research on influencing factors and governance of disinformation dissemination on science and technology topics: an empirical study on the topic of “metaverse”

Xu Wang; Xin Feng; Jingyi Zhao
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The diffusion process of product-harm misinformation on social media: evidence from consumers and insights from communication professionals

Zifei Fay Chen; Yang Cheng
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Who believes political fake news? The role of conspiracy mentality, patriotism, perceived threat to freedom, media literacy and concern for disinformation

Kate L. Daunt; Dominique A. Greer; Hyun Seung Jin; Isabella Orpen
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An empirical evaluation of the predictors and consequences of social media health-misinformation seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Muhammad Riaz; Wu Jie; Mrs Sherani; Sher Ali; Fredrick Ahenkora Boamah; Yan Zhu
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You are lying! How misinformation accusations spread on Twitter

Ashish S. Galande; Frank Mathmann; Cesar Ariza-Rojas; Benno Torgler; Janina Garbas
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Online silence: why do people not challenge others when posting misinformation?

Selin Gurgun; Emily Arden-Close; Keith Phalp; Raian Ali
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Implications of source, content, and style cues in curbing health misinformation and fake news

Louisa Ha; Debipreeta Rahut; Michael Ofori; Shudipta Sharma; Michael Harmon; Amonia Tolofari; Bernadette Bowen; Yanqin Lu; Amir Khan
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What's in the black box? How algorithmic knowledge promotes corrective and restrictive actions to counter misinformation in the USA, the UK, South Korea and Mexico

Myojung Chung
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Combating misinformation with internet culture: the case of Brazilian public health organizations and their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

Julian Marx; Beatriz Blanco; Adriana Amaral; Stefan Stieglitz; Maria Clara Aquino
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