Information Integrity
The integrity of our information environment is fundamental to the health of democracy and effective public policymaking. Yet today’s digital ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable to low-quality, deceptive, or manipulative information—from both domestic and foreign actors, that undermines trust, polarizes citizens, and impairs collective problem-solving on critical societal challenges.
CCPP scholars investigate the factors that enhance or compromise information integrity across social and digital networks. Our research explores how influence campaigns, algorithmic amplification, and coordination dynamics shape what information people encounter and believe; how media behaviors, attitudes, and identities drive exposure to and endorsement of low-integrity content; how information ecosystems can be made more transparent and resilient; and what the societal, behavioral, and policy consequences are when information systems fail.
Recent Select Publications
- Garrett, R. K., Bond, R. M., & Nisbet, E. C. (2025). Self-Reported Exposure and Beliefs About Misinformation Across a US Presidential Election Cycle: Expressive Responding and Motivated Reasoning. Political Communication
- Nisbet, E.C. and Kamenchuk, O. (2025). Unpacking the psychology of state-sponsored disinformation operations and implications for public diplomacy counterstrategies. In S. Aday’s Handbook on Public Diplomacy. United Kingdom. Edward Elgar Publishing
- Ruijgrok, K., Berenschot, W., Gaw, F., Sombatpoonsiri, J., Wijayanto, Agonos, M. J., & Sastramidjaja, Y. (2025). Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cyber Troops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Political Communication, 1-21.
- Osborne, M.A., Malloy, S., Nisbet, E.C., Bond, R.M., Tien, J.H. (2022). Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation. Scientific Reports. 9832 (2022).
- Nisbet, E.C. and Kamenchuk, O. (2021). Russian news media, digital media, informational learned helplessness, and the belief in COVID-19 misinformation. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 33 (3), 571-590
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