Media
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- AARP. 2/27/2026. Why Older Adults Should Beware of Health Advice on Social Media
- KFF. 2/26/2026. Older Adults See More Low-Quality Health Information Online, Study Shows
- Health Day. 2/23/2026. Seniors More Likely To Browse Bad Medical Info On The Web
- Pourquoi Docteur. 2/16/2026. Désinformation médicale en ligne : qui sont les premières victimes?
- Washington Post. 12/12/2025. Why Mormonism may have an answer for our toxic politics
- The Week. 10/29/2025. Are boomers the real phone addicts?
- Psychology Today. 10/9/2025. Remaking the Culture of American Politics.
- New York Times. 9/19/2025. Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink
- El Pais. 1/19/2025. La gente mayor prefiere la información dudosa, no por falta de habilidades digitales, sino porque confirma su ideología
- Popular Science. 11/22/2024. How to talk to your ‘skeptic’ family about science misinformation
- The Dallas Morning News. 11/16/2024. How we move past partisan animosity.
- Deseret News. 11/5/2024. Eager to cool the political heat? It’s possible, say University of Utah researchers and others
- Washington Post. 11/4/2024. Can you guess for whom people will vote? Try this quiz.
- Guardian US. 11/3/2024. Can you ‘undo’ political polarization? Left and right might be closer than we think, study finds
- Science. 10/31/2024. Researchers are trying to “inoculate” people against misinformation
- Forbes. 10/1/2024. Political Extremists Really Are More Gullible.
- Washington Post. 9/11/2024. How TikTokers think about misinformation
- The Atlantic. 8/19/2024. The last man in America to change his mind about Trump
- Politico. 7/25/2024. No one has a clue about what happens on social media
- ABC News. 7/16/2024. Why it’s so hard to measure support for political violence
- New York Times. 7/12/2024. Even Disinformation Experts Don’t Know How to Stop It
- Polity [Africa Check]. 7/12/2024. Casting doubts and casting votes - the real-world effects of false election fraud claims
- Mother Jones. 6/26/2024. The Utah Governor’s Lonely Crusade to Make Politics Nice Again
- Yahoo News. 6/17/2014. Quiz: Most Americans are overconfident in their ability to spot fake news, are you one of them?
- New York Times. 4/24/2024. Why Losing Political Power Now Feels Like ‘Losing Your Country’
- WebMD. 4/18/2024. Changing Entrenched Health Beliefs Is Not Impossible
- Deseret News. 4/17/2024. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox takes ‘Disagree Better’ to the TED Talks stage
- Forbes. 2/12/2024. The Role Of Humans And AI In Social Media’s Battle Against Misinformation
- George W Bush Presidential Center. 1/25/2024. Look to points of light for solutions to divisions.
- Dallas Morning News. 11/20/2023. Utah Governor: let’s disagree better at our Thanksgiving tables
- Newsweek. 9/21/2023. To Address Online Misogyny, Borrow from the Disinformation Defense Playbook
- Wall Street Journal. 8/26/2023. Why Tribalism Took Over Our Politics
- Times-News. 7/22/2023. We won’t always agree — and that’s OK — but we can disagree better
- LSE USAPP. 7/21/2023. Fake news is still a problem in international experience shows how a robust public education program on media literacy could help
- Axios. 7/14/2023. New NGA chair Utah Gov. Spencer Cox wants Americans to “disagree better.”
- PBS. 5/31/2023. NewsHour 5/31 episode (What’s driving America’s partisan divide and what might be done to reverse it)
- Reason. 5/18/2023. The Future of Media Literacy Education
- Psychology Today. 4/19/2023. Strengthening Democracy, One Experiment at a Time
- Nature. 3/1/2023. How to tackle political polarization — the researchers trying to bridge divides
- Psychology Today. 2/17/2023. How to Get People to Be More Civil
- The New York Times. 2/8/2023. Meet the People Working on Getting Us to Hate Each Other Less
- Forbes. 1/12/2023. Media Trends: Why Misinformation Is Here To Stay
- LA Times. 11/22/2022. Op-Ed: How to talk to your disagreeable uncle at Thanksgiving
- The Hill. 11/4/2022. Democracy under attack: Time to condemn political violence
- St. Louis Post Dispatch. 11/4/2022. Short takes on unfocused politicians, off-focus protests and unlawful law enforcers
- Washington Post. 11/1/2022. How can the U.S. help prevent more political violence?
- CNN. 10/31/2022. Misinformation and hate are trending in this election year
- Deseret News. 10/27/2022. Perspective: How a bipartisan ad from Utah helped reduce partisanship
- The Hill. 10/23/2022. Utah opponents made a campaign ad together. Here’s what it achieved.
- The Atlantic. 10/21/2022. How to Save Democracy
- Washington Post. 9/13/2022. Here’s what persuades Americans to support democracy over party
- NPR. 9/6/2022. Stanford’s ‘Strengthening Democracy’ study
- Thompson Reuters. 9/5/2022. Prebunking: how to build resilience against online misinformation
- Fox News. 9/4/2022. The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton, September 4th episode.
- The Independent. 8/28/2022. How scientists used YouTube to prevent millions of people falling for misinformation.
- Nieman Lab. 8/25/2022. Can you inoculate people against misinformation before they even see it? This study says yes.
- C-SPAN [Washington Journal]. 8/25/2022. New study on reducing polarization in the U.S
- Tech Policy Press. 8/24/2022. Challenge Yields Experimental Interventions to Strengthen U.S. Democracy.
- Sinclair National Desk. 8/22/2022. Researchers try to find ways to turn down America’s political temperature
- MSNBC [Morning Joe]. 8/19/2022. Study looks to strengthen how we feel about democracy
- LSE USAPP. 7/15/2022. Misperceptions are much harder to correct in people who know less than they think they do about politics [..]
- CNN. 10/7/2021. What’s stunning about the misinformation trend – and how to fix it.
- The Guardian. 7/2/2021. Researchers reveal corrosive power of Trump’s lie of a stolen election.
- Ars Technica. 6/2/2021. Dunning-Kruger meets fake news
- The Independent. 6/1/2021. Three in four Americans overestimate their ability to spot false news stories, study finds
- New York Daily News. 6/1/2021. Americans most confident in spotting ‘Fake News’ may be the most vulnerable to it.
- The Guardian. 5/31/2021. Overconfident of spotting fake news? If so, you may be more likely to fall victim
- Snopes. 5/31/2021. Those Who Think They Can Spot Misinformation Are More Likely to be Duped by It, Study Finds.
- CNN. 5/31/2021. Most Americans think they can spot fake news. They can’t, study finds
- Scientific American. 4/1/2021. How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks
- The Conversation. 3/18/2021. 7 ways to avoid becoming a misinformation superspreader
- Republished in Salon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Arizona Daily Star, Seattle Post-Intelligencer etc.
- CQ Researcher [Congressional Quarterly]. 3/5/2021. Expertise Under Assault
- The Washington Post. 11/6/2020. Five myths about misinformation
- The New York Times. 9/11/2020. Getting Wise to Fake News.
- Der Spiegel. 9/2/2020. A dialogue is becoming increasingly difficult or even impossible.
- ProPublica. 7/16/2020. ‘Outright Lies’: Voting Misinformation Flourishes on Facebook
- LSE US Centre. 7/13/2020. Using digital media reinforces inequalities in political participation
- The Conversation. 7/8/2020. Coronavirus anti-vaxxers: here’s how to change their minds
- Healthline. 6/28/2020. Learn to Spot Fake Health News with These 5 Tips
- Nieman Lab. 6/26/2020. The little things (pop-ups, notifications, warnings) work to fight fake news, new evidence shows
- Consumer Reports. 6/26/2020. Facebook Will Warn Users Sharing Outdated Content.
- Hindustan Times. 6/24/2020. Here’s why it’s important to be digitally literate and avoid spread of misinformation
- Ars Technica. 6/23/2020. In the UK, social media use associated with COVID-19 conspiracy theories
- Consumer Reports. 6/22/2020. Facebook Gave Tips to Spot Fake News. A Study Says They Work Surprisingly Well.
- The Atlantic. 6/19/2020. The Damage of Trump’s Voter-Fraud Allegations Can’t Be Undone
- Lawfare. 2/20/2020. The Empirical Effects of Disinformation
- Nieman Lab. 10/11/2019. Focus here, not there: These are the gaps in political misinformation research
- FiveThirtyEight. 10/8/2019. Media Bubbles Aren’t The Biggest Reason We’re Partisans
- Reuters. 7/25/2019. U.S. Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on the weather: Reuters/Ipsos
- NPR. 6/8/2019. ‘We All Owe Al Gore An Apology’: More People See Climate Change In Record Flooding
- The Atlantic. 6/7/2019. Some Real News About Fake News
- The Skeptical Inquirer. 5/2019. Skepticism And The Persuasive Power Of Conversion Stories
- LSE European Politics and Policy. 5/17/2019. What do Europeans know about the EU before they go to the polls?
- Christian Science Monitor. 4/16/2019. Is America’s media divide destroying democracy?
- Los Angeles Times. 3/19/2019. Some real facts about fake news and its influence on U.S. elections
- Medium. 3/7/2019. We can’t combat fake news if we don’t really understand it
- Psychology Today. 2/8/2019. Antivaxxers and the Plague of Science Denial
- Facebook Newsroom. 2/7/2019. New Research Shows Facebook Making Strides Against False News
- Columbia Journalism Review. 2/7/2019. Researchers say fears about ‘fake news’ are exaggerated
- El País. 2/3/2019. Bienvenidos a la era de los extremos climáticos
- El País. 1/30/2019. Estados Unidos se hiela mientras Australia se quema
- Wissenschaftskommunikation.de. 1/21/2019. Kontroverse Themen: Gesinnungswechsel regen zum Nachdenken an
- Genetic Literacy Project. 1/18/2019. Ex-GMO skeptics may be best advocates for crop biotech.
- Huffington Post. 10/8/2018. Americans hit by extreme weather want the media to cover climate change.
- Pacific Standard. 10/2/2018. Extreme weather won’t convince climate skeptics.
- The Conversation. 8/31/2018. Google News serves conservatives and liberals similar results, but favors mainstream media.
- Neiman Lab. 6/8/2018. How can we restore trust in news?
- The Verge. 3/22/2018. If Facebook controls your mind, so do a lot of other tech companies.
- FiveThirtyEight. 3/9/2018. Why do Americans hate the media?
- Axios. 2/22/2018. The science of conspiracies: Where Flat Earth meets Pizzagate.
- Reason. 2/14/2018. When an echo chamber gets worked up about echo chambers.
- New York Times. 10/20/2017. How fiction becomes fact on social media.
- Wired [UK]. 9/14/2017. Journalists can help readers sift facts from false opinions.
- Washington Post (Monkey Cage). 11/4/2016. Twitter trolls are actually hurting democracy.
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