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The authors of this work were funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe grant OMINO – Overcoming Multilevel INformation Overload (grant number 101086321, http://ominoproject.eu). Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the European Research Executive Agency can be held responsible for them. J.A.H., P.K, T.K., P.B. and J.S. were also co-financed with funds from the Polish Ministry of Education and Science under the programme entitled International Co-Financed Projects and J.A.H. and J.S. additionally acknowledge support from a special grant for leaders of European projects coordinated by the Warsaw University of Technology. B.K.S. was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (USA) Grant NSF-SBE 2214216. P.K. acknowledges support from Polish National Science Centre grants 2021/41/B/ST6/04471 and 2020/37/B/ST6/03806.
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Hołyst, J.A., Mayr, P., Thelwall, M. et al. Protect our environment from information overload. Nat Hum Behav 8, 402–403 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01833-8
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