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Content Moderation on Social Media in the EU: Insights From the DSA Transparency Database
Chiara Drolsbach, Nicolas Pröllochs
The Digital Services Act (DSA) requires large social media platforms in the EU to provide clear and specific information whenever they remove or restrict access to certain content.…
Which linguistic cues make people fall for fake news? A comparison of cognitive and affective processing
Bernhard Lutz, Marc Adam, Stefan Feuerriegel +2
Fake news on social media has large, negative implications for society. However, little is known about what linguistic cues make people fall for fake news and, hence, how to design…
Is Fact-Checking Politically Neutral? Asymmetries in How U.S. Fact-Checking Organizations Pick Up False Statements Mentioning Political Elites
Yuwei Chuai, Jichang Zhao, Nicolas Pröllochs +1
Political elites play an important role in the proliferation of online misinformation. However, an understanding of how fact-checking platforms pick up politicized misinformation f…
Did the Roll-Out of Community Notes Reduce Engagement With Misinformation on X/Twitter?
Yuwei Chuai, Haoye Tian, Nicolas Pröllochs +1
Developing interventions that successfully reduce engagement with misinformation on social media is challenging. One intervention that has recently gained great attention is X/Twit…
Community Notes vs. Snoping: How the Crowd Selects Fact-Checking Targets on Social Media
Moritz Pilarski, Kirill Solovev, Nicolas Pröllochs
Deploying links to fact-checking websites (so-called "snoping") is a common intervention that can be used by social media users to refute misleading claims. However, its real-world…
Believability and Harmfulness Shape the Virality of Misleading Social Media Posts
Chiara Drolsbach, Nicolas Pröllochs
Misinformation on social media presents a major threat to modern societies. While previous research has analyzed the virality across true and false social media posts, not every mi…
New threats to society from free-speech social media platforms
Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel
In recent years, several free-speech social media platforms (so-called "alt-techs") have emerged, such as Parler, Gab, and Telegram. These platforms market themselves as alternativ…