Synthesis Report - Trends in the Information Environment: 2026 Expert Survey Results

This report explains how political weighting works, how Pew Research Center does it, and some of its limitations.

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

One in four employees stay in jobs they want to leave to keep their health insurance, with women and those with chronic conditions most affected.

People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive nor....

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85 reports at 63 R1 campuses, 10 at 10 R2 campuses, 1 at a selective liberal arts college, and a census of all 326 Carnegie R1 and R2 universities plus 46 selective liberal arts colleges. Who delibera...

Research is often designed to be mission or challenge-led, but what does it take to be successful & what skills are required from emerging "mission managers".

Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively unpolarized citizens view and participat...

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

An organization produced fake polls as part of a short-term social experiment. AAPOR condemns the fabrication of data in any polling or public opinion research.

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...

Exclusive: Rahil Prakash tells the Guardian: ‘I wanted to see if fake polls could penetrate the ecosystem that easily’

Abstract. A rich literature has documented how voters navigate the complex information landscape by using heuristics, or “information shortcuts,” to help t

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...

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...

In this article, we examine TikTok memes about former Vice president Kamala Harris that circulated through the digital registers of the Charli XCX-inspired “Kamala is Brat” trend. By analyzing the ...

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

Attached: 1 image New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21222978 1/

Cambridge Core - American Studies - American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy

Black and Latino Americans, especially those who are Gen Z, are more likely than white Americans to want to run for office.

Despite extensive efforts to curb misinformation, it continues to spread on social media platforms. Research indicates that people rarely share con...

Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works...

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)