Misinformation

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 Link to RFP:  https://pulitzercenter.org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/science-misinformation Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Funding available: We do not have a budget range. We will consider projects of…

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 College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, and a team of 10 scholars were featured in “People Still Care About the…

Carma Bylund, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations professor and professor in the Division of Hematology & Oncology at the UF College of Medicine, is the co-author of “How to Talk to Patients About the COVID Vaccine” published on medpagetoday.com on July 30. Bylund, Lindsay Thompson…

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. Those are the findings from a…

Despite more than 450,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far in the U.S., nearly a third of Americans say they definitely or probably will not get the vaccine, according to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey. If those numbers hold, it will be well short of the number…

CJC Telecommunication Assistant Professor Jieun Shin was interviewed on Nov. 10, 2020 about her research on algorithms, AI and the spread of misinformation. Below the video is an edited transcript of that interview. Much of your recent research has focused on algorithms and the spread of misinformation. How did you…

Many technology companies like Amazon and Facebook use algorithms to determine what content should be presented to users based on their previous behavior and preferences.  Search algorithms are also a key determinant of what information is presented. Platform search results are one of the main ways people retrieve and believe…

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…

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. The proposal by Fernandes and Wertheim College of Engineering Associate Professor Daniela Oliveira…