The spread of false and misleading online information from both domestic and foreign sources, regardless of whether it is inadvertent or purposeful, pollutes political discourse and amplifies partisan discord, which in turn severely hampers the ability of society to address critical policy challenges.  

How dis/misinformation spreads through social networks, how misinformation evolves on social media platforms, how media behaviors and attitudes drive exposure to and endorsement of misinformation, how we proactively mitigate misinformation, and the downstream impacts of misinformation on behavior, policy, and society are all essential questions that CCPP scholars explore.  

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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