Social Media Posts Have Power, and So Do You: Stop the Spread of False and Misleading Information During Voting Season rand.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rand.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
During most of 2023 we highlighted one updated rebuttal per week, output from our quite productive Rebuttal Update Factory. Cranky Uncle learned a few new languages during the year and we could add several handbook translations. But there was a lot more to keep us busy during the year! As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:
"At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself."
".adds to the mounting evidence against familiarity backfire effects and has implications for vaccination communications and the design of debunking interventions." Individuals often continue to rely on misinformation in their reasoning and decision making even after it has been corrected.
First Draft: prebunking and avoiding amplification of election disinformation bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.