Yunhao Zhang¶
Yunhao Zhang is a researcher at MIT working on misinformation, with focus on behavioral and cognitive approaches to understanding and combating false information online, particularly in crisis contexts like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key works¶
- Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media (Pennycook et al., 2020) — Experimental evidence that accuracy-salience interventions improve discriminative sharing behavior for COVID-19 content.
Areas of research¶
- Misinformation and social media
- Behavioral interventions
- Crisis communication