The Misinformation Susceptibility Test
29 Jun 2023 New 2-minute test launched; developed using ChatGPT technology and validated by expert panel and series of experiments involving thousands of...
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Rewarding accuracy instead of partisan pandering reduces political divisions over the truth
06 Mar 2023 Researchers argue that the findings hold lessons for social media companies and the “perverse incentives” driving political polarisation online.
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Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy theories
28 Feb 2023 Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analysed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering –...
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Foolproof: A psychological vaccine against fake news
06 Feb 2023 In an edited extract from his new book ‘Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity’, Prof Sander van der Linden takes us...
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How to 'inoculate' millions against misinformation on social media
24 Aug 2022 Briefly exposing social media users to tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of dangerous online falsehoods – even amid intense ‘noise’ of...
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Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda
03 May 2022 A study of the propaganda that flooded Donbas for years reveals a failure to build pro-Russian 'in-group' identities in the region, despite Putin’s...
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‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods, study finds
12 May 2021 Latest research on digital interventions deployed by UK government and UNESCO suggests that exposing people to a “microdose” of techniques used by...
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Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change misinformation
18 Feb 2021 Social media giant turns to behaviour and communication expert Dr Sander van der Linden to help them tackle the dangerous anti-science myths that...
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Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
06 Nov 2020 A short online game in which players are recruited as a 'Chief Disinformation Officer' and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a...
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Popular COVID-19 conspiracies linked to vaccine ‘hesitancy’
14 Oct 2020 An international study finds that people who rate coronavirus conspiracy theories as more reliable are much less likely to say they will get...
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