CHS: Small: This research attempted to investigate how “misinformation becomes integrated into online narratives about public health and how technology and design features influence this process. The project employs crowd-based experiments using a novel research platform to study the diffusion of information, the impact of credibility signals, and the role of network diversity and corrective messages in shaping public health narratives.”
Online Dynamics of Misinformation
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Another grant to track and contain the spread of online information opposed by the public health establishment. Instead of addressing the underlying reasons for the public's total lack of trust in public health, their response here, as with dozens of other grants, is to demonize dissent and develop highly technical means for censoring their critics.
Another grant to track and contain the spread of online information opposed by the public health establishment. Instead of addressing the underlying reasons for the public's total lack of trust in public health, their response here, as with dozens of other grants, is to demonize dissent and develop highly technical means for censoring their critics.