Media & Polarization – Shelley Liu

Publications

Sustaining Exposure to Fact-checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and its Political Implications (with Jeremy Bowles, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, & John Marshall). American Political Science Review Vol 119, No 4 (2025). [Journal][EGAP][JPAL]

Countering Misinformation Via WhatsApp: Preliminary Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe (with Jeremy Bowles and Horacio Larreguy) PLoS ONE Vol 15, No. 10 (2020). [Paper][Journal][Internews][EGAP]

Ongoing (Selected)

Reducing WhatsApp Usage to Mitigate Misinformation Exposure During Elections: Evidence from a Multi-Country Experiment (with Rajeshwari Majumdar, Tiago Ventura, Carolina Torreblanca, and Joshua Tucker). Revise and resubmit. [Draft (OSF)]

Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy (with Ahmet Akbiyik, Jeremy Bowles, and Horacio Larreguy). [Working paper (CESifo)][JPAL]