Bak-Coleman, Joe, Kennedy, Ian, Wack, Morgan, Beers, Andrew, Schafer, Joe, Spiro, Emma, Starbird, Kate and Jevin West. “Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation.” Nature Human Behavior, 2022, 1-9.
This paper tests the impact of several disparate methods for combatting online misinformation using a generative model of the spread of viral misinformation. Applied to a corpus of 10.5 million tweets, analyses show that popular intervention techniques are often ineffective in isolation. However, when combined these methods are shown to substantively reduce the spread of misinformation.