Model reveals why debunking election misinformation often doesn’t work
A) Conceptual representation of the inverse planning model and B) schematic of the model simulations. In each pair of simulations, ...
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Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain At a time when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often disputed, UC ...
United States: NGOs win big with misinformation about vaccines
An anti-vaccine group founded by US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. made millions of dollars by sharing false information during ...
King Kong, vampires, asteroids: trendy AI misinformation popular on TikTok
TikTok is on everyone's lips in the US Congress because of its supposed links to the Chinese state, but in ...
Short corrective comments can help social media users spot misinformation, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Research shows that reading other people's corrections online can reduce perceived accuracy and engagement with incorrect ...
Elections: Arizona Secretary of State on the front lines of misinformation
“Elections are the fabric of our society”: nine months before the US presidential election, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes ...
Assessing the veracity of fake news via online searches increases the chances of believing misinformation: study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Conventional wisdom suggests that searching online to assess the veracity of misinformation would reduce trust in ...
Starbucks: Our protesters are influenced by social media misinformation
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan said that those protesting against the company over its position on the war launched by Israel ...
Major language patterns repeat conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain New research on major language patterns shows that they repeat conspiracy theories, harmful stereotypes and other ...
