🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Michael Hameleers Michael Hameleers ASCoR | @[email protected]) and I guest edit a special issue on AI & Disinformation JMCQ. We explore AI-generated disinfo and its impact on journalism & communication Abstracts due: Sept 1, 2024. 👇shorturl.at/e5AeW

There's a piece going around arguing that climate disinformation isn't a serious obstacle to climate action. IMO it rests on several incorrect premises, so I wrote a response. If you saw Holly Jean Buck's piece, I hope you'll take a look at this, too. 1/19 jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

🚨Combining AI analysis of 7.7M tweets with survey data, our new Nature Communications study uncovers psychological factors linked to belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The most consistent risk factor? Being politically extreme (left- and right-wing). nature.com/articles/s4146…

In this cool new paper led by Jonas R. Kunst (@kunstjonas.bsky.social) we find that the Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) predicts real-world engagement with conspiracy theories online. Notably, "rejecting true information" showed no relation, but believing *false* info did! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Disinformation is a bigger threat to society/humanity than (IMHO) any other .... Because perception changes reality.. Decisions are based off perception! Imagine if people make bad decisions because they are being deceived all the time....

“Elon Musk calls himself a ‘free speech absolutist’ but has accepted over 80% of censorship requests from authoritarian governments. Two days before the Turkish elections, he blocked accounts critical of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan” theguardian.com/technology/art…

Ads for the Dem & Rep party are appearing next to nazi posts on X CBS News finds! "Van der Linden said that since Musk's takeover of the social media platform in '22, the removal of content moderation measures has led to an explosion in hate speech" cbsnews.com/news/ads-repub…

The Durov Case is Not About Free Speech ft.com/content/290a63…

Study: Politics & polarization > embrace of conspiracy theories "...polarized individuals are more engaged in propagating information related to conspiracy theories..." "...right-leaning individuals show a greater tendency towards conspiracy theories targeting marginalized

**New preprint** industry shares real, accurate but distracting science to impact decision making. In Industrial Distraction we use causal models and cases to show how and why this works philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23843/

Elon Musk has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X, spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - Jon Hislop, MD, PhD

Just got this in the mail. Thanks so much for including #FOOLPROOF in the Global Association of Applied Behavioral Scientists Book Award GAABS this year!! Means a lot that colleagues in the field voted for it🙏

Today, we launch a new guidebook with 14 best practices for producing culturally competent prebunking and inoculation content for countering misinformation impacting U.S. Latinos ahead of the elections. A Thread: 1/6 ddia.org/en/best-practi…

“While all inoculation approaches had some positive effects, having culturally competent content was more effective. These new findings show how essential it is that counter-misinformation strategies be adapted to address our communities’ online needs.” Roberta Braga 4/6

I often get asked about prebunking resources for Latino audiences. Great new study from the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas found that while all inoculation videos lowered sharing of misinformation, the culturally competent videos for US Latinos often worked best! Resource: ddia.org/en/best-practi…

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? theguardian.com/technology/art…

Disinformation matters. For example, drivers are being actively misinformed about EVs, and the more false beliefs drivers hold, the less likely they are to want their next car to be an EV.

Countering #misinformation: needed & effective. Study: nature.com/articles/s4159… Both debunks & prebunks help reduce "vulnerability to misinformation in the expected direction in almost all cases, with debunks being slightly more effective than prebunks." "...our results mostly

Very cool paper by Carlos Carrasco-Farré, PhD on fingerprints of misinfo; "Findings illuminate the contrasting approaches adopted by reliable sources..reliable news tends to maintain a balanced & neutral tone, while misinformation often exhibits a highly negative & morally charged narrative"