This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SPRF) program award (CFDA 47.075) provides $160,000 in funding over 2 years to support an early career scientist examining information integrity. The project aims to test the effectiveness of "social queries" - user-generated responses that draw attention to the accuracy or credibility of online information. Key components include: 1) experimental testing of social queries, 2) large-scale analysis of user attempts to respond to online information, and 3) controlled experiments evaluating query effectiveness in different contexts. The project seeks to develop practical guidelines for implementing this information integrity intervention. Other expected contributions include furthering theoretical understanding of how individuals form and disseminate beliefs online, characterizing current user correction efforts, and refining methodologies for testing interventions on emergent misinformation. No sub-awards are planned under this two-year project grant.
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