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  2. Fake news - Wikipedia

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    Considerable research is underway regarding strategies for confronting and suppressing fake news of all types, in particular disinformation, which is the deliberate spreading of false narratives for political purposes, or for destabilising social cohesion in targeted communities. Multiple strategies need to be tailored to individual types of ...

  3. Quantitative methods in criminology - Wikipedia

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    Quantitative research methods in criminology are defined as techniques that record variations in social life through categories that can be quantified, often involving surveys and experiments. According to Russell K. Schutt, these methods are characterized by data that "are either numbers or attributes that can be ordered in terms of magnitude ...

  4. Misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Spreading false information can also seriously impede the effective and efficient use of the information available on social media. [124] An emerging trend in the online information environment is "a shift away from public discourse to private, more ephemeral, messaging ", which is a challenge to counter misinformation.

  5. Disinformation - Wikipedia

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    The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University defines disinformation research as an academic field that studies "the spread and impacts of misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation," including "how it spreads through online and offline channels, and why people are susceptible to believing bad information, and successful strategies for mitigating its impact" [23] According to a 2023 ...

  6. PolitiFact: What’s behind recent false claims about ...

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    The Marshall Project, What Crime Data Says About the Effects of Texas Busing Migrants, Feb. 17, 2024 National Institute of Justice, Undocumented Immigrant Offending Rate Lower Than U.S.-Born ...

  7. Misinformation effect - Wikipedia

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    Similar methods continue to be used in misinformation effect studies. Standard methods involve showing subjects an event, usually in the form of a slideshow or video. The event is followed by a time delay and introduction of post-event information. Finally, participants are retested on their memory of the original event. [13]

  8. Disinformation attack - Wikipedia

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    Disinformation attacks involve the intentional spreading of false information, with end goals of misleading, confusing, and encouraging violence, [23] and gaining money, power, or reputation. [24] Disinformation attacks may involve political, economic, and individual actors.

  9. Fact-checking - Wikipedia

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    Some studies have found that exposure to fact-checks had durable effects on reducing misperceptions, [30] [31] [32] whereas other studies have found no effects. [33] [34] Scholars have debated whether fact-checking could lead to a "backfire effect" whereby correcting false information may make partisan individuals cling more strongly to their ...

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