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Briony Swire-Thompson
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology
Expertise
belief systems, cancer misinformation, correcting misinformation, fake news, health misinformation, misinformation, network science, political misinformation, social media

Briony Swire-Thompson in the Press

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Misinformation about sunscreen is spreading on TikTok, researchers say

Briony Swire-Thompson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the university’s Psychology of Misinformation Lab, said it was encouraging that the majority of the videos on TikTok did not contain misinformation and promoted sunscreen.