Category Archives: Misinfo

HKS Misinformation Review→ Disinformation in practice: Threats, actors, mechanisms, and constraints according to practitioners

2026-10-22 How do the practitioners charged with fighting disinformation understand the problem they are meant to solve? We surveyed 106 French practitioners across military, government, regulatory, civil-society, and media organizations. These practitioners co …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ How can approaches from physical ecology help research and policy on the information environment?

2026-10-19 Scholars and policymakers increasingly use ecological metaphors such as “information environment” and “information ecosystem” to describe contemporary informational spaces. Ecology offers more than loanwords. Its concepts and frameworks can h …›

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 …›