Trust and Distrust in Social Epistemic Networks

This project aims to discover critically-needed understandings of the social causes and consequences of fakenews. It will do this by investigating and mapping the relationship between epistemic vices and peoplesacceptance of misinformation and disinformation (e.g. conspiracy theories). It will bring together approaches fromexperimental philosophy, natural language processing, social network analysis, and normative reflection toprovide new insights regarding distrust and intellectual vice, thus significantly advancing knowledge of the darkside of social epistemology. Results will lead to urgently required guidance regarding the features of socialnetworks that exacerbate or buffer against the manifestation of these vices.