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Is Russian online disinformation a significant threat to American democracy? Are Dave Rubin and Tim Pool masterful manipulators of public opinion? What do Noam Chomsky and Tucker Carlson have in common? Thoughts: conspicuouscognition.com/p/tenet-media-…

New in Scientific American : Is misinformation *really* a problem? Our take: Exposure to "fake news" is rare, but misinformedness is common- b/c of misleading claims from elites & mainstream news. Solutions must take this into account! w David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social scientificamerican.com/article/combat… 1/N

Good article. Misinformation is often defined poorly in academic research, either 1) as only blatantly false articles, or 2) by source, regardless of accuracy But much of what’s misleading is from normally-fine sources, and often is technically true but missing key context

Misleading press coverage had *50x* the impact of COVID "misinfo." From highly editorialized headlines to misleading quotes, it's much harder to address or even study this complex set of problems. Glad to see this work starting to get the attention it deserves.

In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24%—with effects persisting for 6 months! -Increased satisfaction with Twitter -Led people to share higher-quality news doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

🚨 New Publication 🚨 with Jonathan Ladd, Kalli Giannelos, Can ZENGİN & Martial Foucault! With the generous support of Project Liberty, we incentivized voters to deactivate their Facebook account during the 2022 French Presidential Election. 🧵👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

NEW on our site Are fears about online misinformation in the US election overblown? The evidence suggests they might be, according to this piece by Matthew Leake featuring Jennifer Allen Sacha Altay Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) Yochai Benkler & research from others Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/are-fears…

Great article from Kai Kupferschmidt about the five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers highlighting some of our recent work! Agree with pretty much all these. science.org/content/articl…

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So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces. Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come): science.org/content/articl…

Big congrats to the fabulous Anushka Nair for receiving a Rhodes Scholarship!! I've had the pleasure of working with her for the last year and half and can't wait to see her thrive at Oxford next year! Anushka Nair news.mit.edu/2024/four-mit-…

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