The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media

Preface, 1. Serious queries and editorial epistemologies: How social media are contending with misinformation, Richard Rogers, 2. Problematic information in Google Web Search? Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries, Guillen Torres, 3. The scale of Facebook's problem depends upon how fake news is classified, Richard Rogers, 4. When misinformation migrates: Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web, Anthony Glyn Burton, 5. Fringe players on political Twitter: Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors, Maarten Groen and Marloes Geboers, 6. Twitter as accidental authority: How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic, Emillie de Keulenaar, Ivan Kisjes, Rory Smith, Carina Albrecht and Eleonora Cappuccio, 7. The earnest platform: Coverage of the U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19 and social issues on Instagram, Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo, 8. A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump, Stijn Peeters, Tom Willaert, Marc Tuters, Katrien Beuls, Paul Van Eecke and Jeroen Van Soest, 9. Political TikTok: Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary, Natalia Sanchez-Querubin, Shuaishuai Wang, Briar Dickey and Andrea Benedetti, Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates, Index.