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This workshop brings together interdisciplinary research examining how digital platforms shape the creation, circulation, interpretation, and governance of information in contemporary online environments. The invited papers span technical, behavioral, and economic perspectives on misinformation, disinformation, and responsibility in sociotechnical systems. They explore how crowds and algorithms can verify information, detect adverse events, and assess credibility at scale; how bots amplify and strategically shape public attention; and how sophisticated agents, design choices, labels, and fact-checking interventions can produce counterintuitive effects on belief, engagement, and reporting behavior. Several contributions address the modeling and detection of harmful content, from radical ideologies and terrorist narratives to health misinformation, while others examine the consequences of platform governance mechanisms. The collection also advances theoretical lenses, including process theories of misinformation-driven reality distortion and microeconomic models of platform incentives, bias, and polarization. Together, these works offer a rich, multi-level understanding of how information systems both mitigate and magnify societal risks, and they invite dialogue on designing more responsible, resilient, and accountable digital platforms.