Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07417-w
• Ceren Budak, Brendan Nyhan, David M. Rothschild, Emily Thorson & Duncan J. Watts

Here we identify three common misperceptions: that average exposure to problematic content is high, that algorithms are largely responsible for this exposure and that social media is a primary cause of broader social problems such as polarization.