Category Archives: Misinfo

HKS Misinformation Review→ From avoider to challenger: How individuals respond when faced with misinformation

2026-08-31 There is a growing expectation for individuals to challenge misinformation, especially as platforms alter their governance processes around false content, shifting towards community-flagging approaches.  While research on how individuals re …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Monitoring misinformation, building discernment: A crowdsourcing study during the 2025 Australian federal election

2026-08-27 We conducted a design evaluation exploring whether a structured crowdsourcing system using trained volunteers could monitor and categorize election-related misinformation during the 2025 Australian federal election campaign. Over six weeks, 90 active …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Alternative science against the corrupt elites? The effects of pseudoscience and censorship accusations in health misinformation

2026-08-20 Due to extensive regulations, pseudoscience and accusations of censorship are increasingly used as persuasive strategies in health misinformation. How effective are these? This experiment examines the effects of pseudoscientific misinformation about …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Turning OSINV inside the machine: Open-source investigations and information disorder

2026-08-12 Open-source investigators and OSINV journalists have spent the last decade turning publicly available data into evidence of war crimes, environmental harms, and human rights abuses. More recently, they have trained the same lens on a different target …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Professional and community-based fact-checking show different strengths, but neither performs strongly across trust, scalability, and impact

2026-07-30 Fact-checking on social media matters more than ever. When Meta abandoned professional fact checkers in 2025 in favour of crowd-sourced annotations, it bet that community participation could substitute for institutional expertise. Our systematic revi …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Experts disagree on how to fight AI disinformation, but agree that health and politics need different solutions

2026-07-29 When 54 international experts assessed AI-generated disinformation threats, they revealed a surprising pattern: while video deepfakes received the highest average threat ratings in the political domain (M = 6.31/7), the pattern differed in the h …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ The future of fact-checking in the algorithmic society

2026-07-28 Fact-checking saw a rapid expansion in the mid 2010s when major social media platforms, especially Meta, started funding these activities. Today, however, fact checkers stand at a critical juncture. The early 2020s brought them three interrelated yet …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ “When politicians make claims, we are journalists”: Political fact-checking and social media partnerships

2026-07-28 This article examines how fact checkers in the EU perceive and respond to tensions between their journalistic commitment to political fact-checking and platform partnership rules that restrict the rating of politicians’ claims. Drawing on interview …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Amplifying the storm: Climate disinformation dynamics during natural disasters on right-wing extremist Telegram channels

2026-07-23 Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works to delegitimize scientific consensus. I …›