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NEW on our site Our data shows that people are turning away from the news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising. A new piece by our own Craig T. Robertson explains why this is happening & what publishers can do about it Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-ar…

"participants were able to discern true from false news and erred on the side of skepticism rather than credulity. [...] to improve discernment, there is more room to increase the acceptance of true news than to reduce the acceptance of fact-checked false news."

In this SRMA, Jan and Sacha Altay find that people rate true news as more accurate than false news and are better at rating false news as false than at rating true news as true. nature.com/articles/s4156…

"Clamping down on misinformation may have the effect of undermining belief in things that are true as well." theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

🎯"people are generally vigilant and sophisticated in evaluating communicated information, and manipulation of opinion is exceptionally difficult... this doesn’t exactly seem like a crisis" conspicuouscognition.com/p/what-if-the-…

🚨Out today in PNAS PNASNews🚨 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)? We analyze 100k estimates to find out🧵👇

Very excited to hear Sacha Altay 's keynote at the #ZPLS on the 22nd of May! Register at celleuven.wixsite.com/home/event-det… to make sure you don't miss it 😉 Henry Otgaar Irena Bošković Dr. Charlotte Bücken Ivan Mangiulli Mara Moldoveanu

"rely more on the good stuff" Sacha Altay advocates that we should increase trust in credible sources in order to improve true beliefs!