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Despite the growing literature on adolescent online safety, mainstream news media continues to be a large influence in shaping public perceptions of online safety. This paper investigates the narratives surrounding youth online safety as depicted in mainstream news media through a systematic review of 157 news articles.

QAnon's co-optation of the #SaveTheChildren movement exemplifies networked moral panic and has played a major role in facilitating the spread of misinformation under a banner of moral authority. This paper explores the proponents of #SaveTheChildren on social media platform Instagram in order to explore how networked social movements build knowledge and organize in spaces that are vulnerable to the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

This study examines the structural dynamics of Truth Social, a politically aligned social media platform, during two major political events: the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade and the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago. Using a large-scale dataset of user interactions based on re-truths, we analyze how the network evolves in relation to fragmentation, polarization, and user influence.

Misinformation is a growing problem in today's online information ecosystem. In particular, on major video-sharing platforms, there are few signals for users to assess the credibility of the videos they encounter, even as more people turn towards them for getting information.