De Facto Reading Corner
Research papers and articles on misinformation and disinformation – from cognitive science, psychology and linguistics to the public and social aspects of the phenomenon

The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation
Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard, The Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 2019
Automated tackling of disinformation: Major challenges ahead
Alexandre Alaphilippe, Alexis Gizikis and Clara Hanot of EU DisinfoLab, and Kalina Bontcheva of The University of Sheffield, at the request of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA). Financed under the European Science and Media Hub budget, European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS). March 2019.
Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, Wenjing Pan, Grace A Bassett, Yining Malloch, James F O’Brien, New Media & Society, 2019
False Information on Web and Social Media: A Survey
Srijan Kumar, Stanford University, and Neil Shah, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018. April 2018
INFORMATION DISORDER: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making
Claire Wardle, PhD, Hossein Derakhshan. Council of Europe report DGI(2017)09, September 27, 2017
Can people identify original and manipulated photos of real-world scenes?
Nightingale et al. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2017
Information Disorder: The Essential Glossary
Claire Wardle, PhD, Shorenstein center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, July 2018
Disinformation, 'fake news' and influence campaigns on Twitter
Matthew Hindman, George Washington University, Knight Foundation, October 2018
Combatting Disinformation, Detecting fake news with linguistic models and classification algorithms
Philip Rumman, Mikael Svard, KTH Vetenskap Och Konst, Sweden 2017
Communication of statistics in post-truth society: the good, the bad and the ugly
Emanuele Baldacci, Felicia Pelagalli, Eurostat, 2017
Contrasting the Spread of Misinformation in Online Social Networks
Marco Amoruso, Danielle Anelo, Vincenzo Auletta, Diodato Ferraioli, University of Salerno, Italy, 2017
Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes
Srijan Kumar, Robert West, Jure Leskovec, University of Maryland, Stanford University, 2016
Media use in the European Union
Standart Eurobarometer 86, 2016
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Stanford History Education Group, November 22, 2016
Twitter is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions
Meredith Ringel Morris, Asta Roseway, Aaron Hoff, Julia Schwarz, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon University, February 2012
The Spread of True and False News Online
Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), March 2018
Sir Model for Fake News Spreading Through Whatsapp
Khurana, Pooja and Kumar, Deepak, (April 20, 2018). Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies 2018, held at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur on March 26-27, 2018.
The structural virality of online diffusion
Goel, S., Anderson, A., Hofman, J., & Watts, D. J., Stanford University/Microsoft Research (2015)
Adults' media use and attitudes
Ofcom, June 2017
Children and parents: media use and attitudes
Ofcom, November 2016
Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences
Xinran Chen, Sei-Ching Joanna Sin, Yin-Leng Theng, Chei Sian Lee, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, July 2015
Cognitive bias codex
John Manoogian III, 2016
https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
