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Behavioral psychologist Briony Swire-Thompson is on the frontline in the battle against misinformation. Understanding how the brain stores and retrieves information will make efforts to fight propaganda more effective.
On the safety-vs-freedom tradeoff. Low-trust vs. high-trust societies.
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Sam prides himself on questioning conventional wisdom and subjecting claims to intellectual scrutiny. For kids today, that means Googling stuff. One might think these searches would turn up a varie…
An armed man walks into a pizzeria. Terrified customers gather their children and rush out. But the man is there hoping to protect children. That is a true story. However, the armed man was in the pizza place, in early December, because of a fake news story—or, to put it more accurately, because of misinformation [...]
This text is the written version of the talk given at the Knight Media Forum conference. It was presented on February 23, 2019
"We might like to think of our memory as an archivist that carefully preserves events, but sometimes it's more like a storyteller."
Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.
Many parents that have lost a child to the flu or other vaccine-preventable cause find themselves the target of hateful attacks on social media and by phone -- all while they still grieve their loss.
More on "info voids".
How gameable recommendation systems mislead customers about health information.
We’ve spent the last year wringing our hands about a crisis that doesn’t exist
Feminists of color have proven themselves capable of repelling troll attacks and fake news, be they from Americans, Neo-Nazis, Russians or a combo of all three. Why aren't they part of the solution?
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.
And the finding holds true across party lines
"We need a vision for a new journalism, and a clear path to supporting and sustaining it in a world where consensus can no longer be taken for granted."
Ad fraud, fake news, etc.
Voter suppression.