Information Decay
Spillover
Repeated exposure to disinformation and institutional distrust cumulatively erodes societies’ shared epistemic foundations, fragmenting populations into incompatible interpretive communities incapable of collective sense-making and democratic governance.
Repeated exposure to disinformation and institutional distrust cumulatively erodes societies’ shared epistemic foundations, fragmenting populations into incompatible interpretive communities incapable of collective sense-making and democratic governance.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {Information {Decay}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/information-decay.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Information Decay,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/information-decay.html.