Friday December 20, 2024
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Monday October 14, 2024
Janet Coats, managing director of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, and Joy Mayer, executive director and founder of …
Tuesday September 17, 2024
Misinformation is spreading rapidly in the digital universe, especially during election season, and the hyperlinks found on untrustworthy news sites may be partly to blame, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers.
Tuesday February 20, 2024
As the 2024 election season ramps up, voters are looking for reliable information about candidates to help them decide who to support on election day. Unfortunately, that reliability is threatened by a wave of disinformation that is bolstered by increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence tools.
Thursday December 21, 2023
News publishers must stick to the core values that are the foundation of journalistic work. Competing on the social platforms’ terms – with eyeball-chasing clickbait – won’t solve the attention deficit and will likely only exacerbate the misinformation problem.
Tuesday November 21, 2023
A new study has found that political fandom moderates the effects of partisanship on biased information seeking and sharing. The findings by Won-Ki Moon, University of Florida College of Journalism …
Thursday October 5, 2023
The problem of misinformation or disinformation being disseminated on social media has been well established and documented. But a new study suggests that users actually find factual posts more engaging than posts with misinformation.
Monday September 18, 2023
A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing labels can minimize biased perspectives in fact-checking processes. The findings by Won-Ki Moon, University of Florida …
Sunday September 10, 2023
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Funding Opportunity Title: Threats to Democracy Key words: Democracy, Misinformation, Mass media, journalism, documentary film
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Funding Opportunity Title: Science Misinformation: Journalism in the Age of Truth Decay Key words: Misinformation, Mass media, journalism, documentary film
Monday August 21, 2023
A new study has found that factual tweets, regardless of whether they were COVID-related, were more engaging than misinformation tweets. The findings by Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida …
Friday July 30, 2021
Research recommends that healthcare providers listen actively, use patient-centered communication techniques, respond with empathy to questions and concerns, give a strong recommendation and closing the conversation ensure that the patient can address the issue again.
One third of the most popular cancer treatment articles on social media contain misinformation. Further, the vast majority of that misinformation has the potential to harm cancer patients by supporting approaches that could negatively impact the quality of their treatment and chances for survival.
Sunday February 14, 2021
CJC scholars and Centers explore misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, how AI-base recommendation engines can reinforce vaccine misinformation, and strategies to increase the publics’ confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.
Sunday January 10, 2021
Dr. Jieun Shin discusses her research on algorithms, AI and the spread of misinformation.
Wednesday August 5, 2020
Many technology companies use algorithms to determine what content should be presented to users based on their previous behavior and preferences. But the technology can create a dangerous feedback loop of reinforcing misinformation: the more you click on a subject, the more recommendations for that subject occur, thus creating the illusion that the more you see something, the more it must be true.
Tuesday June 30, 2020
Instagram continues to be one of the fastest growing social networks and currently has more than one billion users. While Instagram has not been a focus of investigations into misinformation, it has not been immune to bad actors. And the nature of the Instagram platform, for example the inability to link to credible sources, makes establishing authenticity problematic.
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Assistant Professor Juliana Fernandes has won an $83,000 UF 2020 Research Opportunity Seed Fund Competition award to explore how to detect and address influence tactics in online propaganda.
