Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation

By Emily K. Vraga, Leticia Bode. Political Communication, 2020

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Research on misinformation is growing in volume and scope, but defining “misinformation” in a consistent and coherent way has been a challenge for the field. To address this challenge, we outline c...

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter (2020, background): “Health misinformation - often defined as information that counters best available evidence from medical experts at the time ( [6] see also [7–10]) - has been documented across almost all social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram [11–16].”
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation (2021, background): “Considering the continuously developing scientific understanding of the virus, information around it can range between various degrees of unverified or dispro- ven, making a clear classification of what counts as ‘misinformation’ difficult (Vraga and Bode, 2020).”
Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study (2020, background): “In the context of a novel disease pandemic, it is also important to consider the uncertainty regarding what is true and false about the disease and its prevention, given that the expert consensus and “best available evidence” are subject to change (Vraga & Bode, 2020, p. 138).”