Andrew Guess

May 12, 2024 | nature.com | Anastasia Kozyreva |Philipp Lorenz-Spreen |Stefan M. Herzog |Stephan Lewandowsky |Ralph Hertwig |Joe Bak-Coleman | +17 more

AbstractThe spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation.

Nov 8, 2023 | sciencedirect.com | Andrew Guess |Jacob Gursky |Timothy Besley |Christopher Walker

Researching and Countering Misinformation in the Global SouthScholarly literature on misinformation has insufficiently captured the experience of the majority of the world’s population: those in the Global South. Findings from this literature are concentrated in Western contexts, and when they do extend to the Global South, do not always rely on strategies that are mindful of the socio-economic contexts in these countries.

Nov 1, 2023 | nature.com | Brendan Nyhan |Emily Thorson |Pablo Barberá |Taylor Brown |Deen Freelon |Matthew Gentzkow | +7 more

Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06297-w Published online 27 July 2023In the version of this article initially published, the variable described in Supplementary Table 36 as measuring Facebook “strikes” for violations of content policies against “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior” (CIB) is inaccurate and does not reflect enforcement of the actual CIB policy, which is not a content-level policy. We therefore removed this row from Supplementary Table 36.

Jul 27, 2023 | science.org | Dario Bressan |Kai Wang |Andrew Guess |Neil Malhotra

AbstractWe studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any reshares over a 3-month period. We find that removing reshared content substantially decreases the amount of political news, including content from untrustworthy sources, to which users are exposed; decreases overall clicks and reactions; and reduces partisan news clicks.

Jul 27, 2023 | science.org | Goda Snieckute |Camilla Engblom |Andrew Guess |Neil Malhotra

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