misinformation
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Quality of science & its communication
Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself
Big tech doesn’t just fund research into itself – it also controls researchers’ access to data. Even big tobacco didn’t…
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Climate knowledge
Repeating aids believing: climate misinformation feels more true through repetition – even if you back climate science
Climate misinformation may be more effective than we’d like to think because of a phenomenon called the illusory truth effect.
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Artificial intelligence
Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this?
Researchers call for three steps to help protect against the risks of generative AI in combination with disinformation.
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Brain power
Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So, what do we do?
We need a better approach for communicating research on social media.
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Brain power
How best to correct scientific misinformation
Strategies exist to rectify misinformation, provided that obstacles are duly acknowledged and circumvented.
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Artificial intelligence
We’re not very good at telling when text has been written by AI
People cannot detect AI-generated text as their judgment is misguided by intuitive but flawed heuristics.
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Brain power
How we can better detect misinformation
Offering positive incentives to overcome the perverse incentives to share misinformation online.
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Brain power
Online communities undermine best scientific advice
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting communities were already pedaling unofficial, and often bad, information among their members.
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Brain power
Three reasons why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it
Disinformation is a plague infecting all forms of media. But efforts to control it abound, and Wikipedia is a good…
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Artificial intelligence
AI tools are generating convincing misinformation. Engaging with them means being on high alert
AI tools are now generating content that’s difficult to distinguish from reality. Fact-checking is our main defence.
