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title: "Misinformation Roundup: Effects on Policy, New Research, + New Ways to Fight It"
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published_at: "2025-05-05T15:16:23+00:00"
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excerpt: "It’s time for another misinformation roundup, where Content Science provides you with up-to-date stories about misinformation impact as well as about how and why it proliferates. In this edition, we’re focusing on Misinformation in policy and politics. Research on misinformation,..."
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It’s time for another misinformation roundup, where [Content Science](http://content-science.com)
 provides you with up-to-date stories about misinformation impact as well as about how and why it proliferates. In this edition, we’re focusing on

- Misinformation in policy and politics.
- Research on misinformation, emotion, and social media.
- Developments in fighting misinformation.

Here’s our pick of the most salient developments.

## **Misinformation in Policy and Politics**

The ties between political polarization and misinformation are becoming clearer, and Americans want more guardrails online.

- **[You Have Been Blocked: Exploring the psychological, personality, and cognitive traits of blocking sources of misinformation on social media](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585324000273#s0030)** A study of the relationships between social media news use, the fear of missing out (FOMO), and how likely people are to block sources of misinformation
- **[Most Americans Favor Restrictions on False Information, Violent Content Online](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/20/most-americans-favor-restrictions-on-false-information-violent-content-online/)** A Pew Research Center survey found the number of Americans who say they want tech companies and the U.S. government to moderate and regulate online content is going up
- **[Chilling Legislation: Tracking the impact of “fake news” laws on press freedom internationally](https://www.cima.ned.org/publication/chilling-legislation/)** Analysis showing that laws aimed at controlling misinformation amplify the potential for journalistic suppression
- **[Who Knowingly Shares False Political Information Online?](https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/who-knowingly-shares-false-political-information-online/)** Harvard Kennedy School survey examined psychological, political, and social characteristics of people who intentionally share misinformation
- **[How do Individual and Societal Factors Shape News Authentication?](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612251318838)** Research showing a relationship between polarization of a society and how likely adults are to proactively verify news reports

## **Misinformation, Emotion, and Social Media**

Misinformation research is growing, and the role of emotion in misinformation’s spread is becoming clearer.

- **[Mapping the Terrain of Social Media Misinformation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104691)** Study showing that misinformation research has grown significantly in the last 5 years, driven primarily by American and Chinese researchers
- [Emotion Detection for Misinformation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566253524000782#sec3) Review of the relationships between anger, sadness, anxiety, and other emotions in identifying misinformation
- **[Misinformation Exploits Outrage to Spread Online](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829)** Research on the role of hyperbole and inaccuracy in how far and fast misinformation spreads

## **Fighting Misinformation About Health and More**

Scientists are coordinating to combat health misinformation, and new research explores how LLMs (large language models) can help detect misinformation efficiently.

- **[The Public Health Communicators Guide to Misinformation](https://publichealthcollaborative.org/communication-tools/the-public-health-communicators-guide-to-misinformation/)** New tool developed by the Public Health Communications Collaborative

- **[Scientists Mobilize to Counter Vaccine Misinformation](https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/public-health-experts-watchdog-vaccines)** Former FDA commissioner and former National Academy of Medicine president join the Vaccine Integrity Project

- **[Unmasking Digital Falsehoods: A Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Misinformation Detection Strategies](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00724)** Study evaluating the role and [effectiveness](https://review.content-science.com/what-are-content-credentials/) of using LLMs to find misinformation

- **[You Won’t Believe This](https://www.science.org/content/article/can-people-be-inoculated-against-misinformation)** University of Cambridge researcher studies how to keep people from believing lies

- **[Using Psychological Science to Understand and Fight Health Misinformation](https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/misinformation-consensus-statement.pdf)** American Psychological Association’s consensus statement offers 8 recommendations for identifying and responding to misinformation in health care

We’ll continue periodic roundups to showcase the latest developments in misinformation.

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