while news verification should be about facts, it is often done through a political lens. This begs the question: Will programs such as community notes that rely heavily on user verification serve their purpose or further exacerbate information disorder
We find news authentication is a resilience tool fostered by institutional trust & political efficacy, esp where structural factors fail to curb misinfo, but it's also fueled by conspiracy beliefs in Western democracies, reflecting its 'dark side' in contexts of growing anti-establishment sentiments
We used a multilevel comparative approach to examine how individual characteristics & structural contexts together shape news authentication, comparing countries with distinct media & political systmes: the Netherlands, the US, and Hong Kong with a preregistered, population-based survey (N = 6,082)
🚨New pub from our cross-country fact-checking project with @xzzhang2.bsky.social & @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social! Survey experiments in HK, US & NL reveal that political predispositions outweigh the impact of debunking messages—whether based on source, framing, or social cues @jmcquarterly.bsky.social
🌟New pub led by @yichen1001.bsky.social on how social norms guide interaction in neighborhood groups on instant messaging platforms! If you're interested in meso spaces, online group dynamics or how IM groups function as civic infrastructure, check out our paper in NMS with @mjbroersma.bsky.social🔓👇
With fact-checkers being replaced by Community Notes on platforms, our cross-country comparative study on individual news authentication/verification published on IJPP offers some key insights. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social & Xinzhi Zhang
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
Qinfeng Zhu, PhD
🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin
pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
