Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Research on the origin, dissemination, and support of conspiracy theories has skyrocketed. Studies reveal how individual antecedents such as people’s personality traits, intrinsic motivations, … Continue reading Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality

Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Research on the origin, dissemination, and support of conspiracy theories has skyrocketed. Studies reveal how individual antecedents such as people’s personality traits, intrinsic motivations, … Continue reading Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality

Fact-Checking Journalism: A Palliative Against the COVID-19 Infodemic in Ibero-America

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 264-285, June 2023. This study explores how fact-checkers understand information disorder in Ibero-America, in particular the COVID-19 disinformation. We conducted a quantitative cont… Continue reading Fact-Checking Journalism: A Palliative Against the COVID-19 Infodemic in Ibero-America

Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, Page 332-353, June 2023. Based on a study of U.S.-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this a… Continue reading Closing the Barn Door? Fact-Checkers as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the COVID-19 “Infodemic”