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fake news | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/fake-news26 Jul 2024: Search. Search. fake news. fake news.. ... 26 Nov 2019. An early example of fake news has been found in the 3000-year-old Babylonian story of Noah and the Ark, which is widely believed to have inspired -
Foolproof: A psychological vaccine against fake news
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/foolproof6 Feb 2023: Most people aren’t fooled by fake news. But is this really the case? ... Moreover, the spread of fake news doesn’t only threaten the wellbeing of individuals. -
Vaccinating against fake news | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/vaccinating-against-fake-news17 May 2019: Search. Search. Vaccinating against fake news. News. Vaccinating against fake news.. ... Policymakers’ approaches to fake news, such as fact checking, tend to be more reactive. -
Topics | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics26 Jul 2024: Search. Search. Topics. Topics.. The demand continues for materials that are stronger, cheaper, lighter, more conductive – simply better. Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the -
‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/trickster-god-used-fake-news-in-babylonian-noah-story26 Nov 2019: Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. ... It may be the earliest ever example of fake news.”. The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from clay tablets that date back -
News | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/news26 Jul 2024: Search. Search. News. Public engagement. News.. -
media | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/media26 Jul 2024: 25 Jun 2019. Study of thousands of players shows a simple online game works like a 'vaccine', increasing skepticism of fake news by giving people a “weak dose” of. ... 20 Feb 2018. A new experiment, launching today online, aims to help -
Fake news ‘vaccine’ works: ‘pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-pre-bunk-game-reduces-susceptibility-to-disinformation25 Jun 2019: Search. Search. Fake news ‘vaccine’ works: ‘pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation. ... They were randomly allocated a mixture of real (“control”) and fake news (“treatment”). -
Cambridge game ‘pre-bunks’ coronavirus conspiracies
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/goviral11 Oct 2020: We are aiming to pre-emptively debunk, or pre-bunk, misinformation by exposing people to a mild dose of the methods used to disseminate fake news.". ... By exposing people to the tactics behind fake news we can help create a general ‘inoculation’, -
Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/fake-news-black-holes-and-ai-cambridge-academics-to-speak-at-hay-festival26 Mar 2019: Search. Search. Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay Festival. ... News. Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay Festival.. -
behaviour | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/behaviour26 Jul 2024: 20 Feb 2018. A new experiment, launching today online, aims to help ‘inoculate’ against disinformation by providing a small dose of perspective from a “fake news. -
Gates Scholar Melisa Basol on inoculating against fake news |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gates-scholar-melisa-basol-on-inoculating-against-fake-news11 Dec 2018: Fake news is like a virus,” she says. “It spreads fast and deeply. ... Players learn about the six most common strategies used to produce and spread fake news. -
Do try this at home | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/get-involved/do-try-this-at-home17 Dec 2020: From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Take part in this online game where you play the role of propaganda producers to help you identify real world disinformation and ... increase your “psychological resistance” to fake news. -
The Misinformation Susceptibility Test
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/misinformation-susceptibility-test29 Jun 2023: The Misinformation Susceptibility Test. ‘Very online’ Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news . ... The MIST will allow us to verify the effectiveness of interventions to tackle fake news. -
politics | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/politics26 Jul 2024: Search. Search. politics. politics.. Topic description and stories. Opinion: Britain needs to clean up its politics by reforming Whitehall and Westminster. 01 Feb 2024. Prof David Howarth, a commissioner on the UK Governance Project, outlines -
Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-online-game-may-inoculate-by-simulating-propaganda-tactics20 Feb 2018: Search. Search. Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics. ... Image. A screen shot of the Fake News Game on a smart phone. -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017 begins | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-2017-begins16 Oct 2017: Fake news isn’t just false news as opposed to real or true news. ... During that time, there was unreliable and fake news about what was going on. -
The Cambridge Series at Hay Festival | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/the-cambridge-series-at-hay-festival20 Mar 2018: Vaccinating against fake news. ... How do we counter fake news and can we inoculate public opinion about misinformation? -
Cambridge commended for communication of research
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/CASEawards202228 Jun 2022: First in the series was The Vaccine for Fake News featuring Dr Sander van der Linden, professor of social psychology and an expert in countering disinformation and misinformation. ... Dr Sander van der Linden's research has used games to teach people how -
Psychology | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/Psychology26 Jul 2024: Search. Search. Psychology. Psychology.. Topic description and stories. Simple blood test can help diagnose bipolar disorder. 25 Oct 2023. Researchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test -
Hay Festival | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/Hay-Festival26 Jul 2024: Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay Festival. -
Pigeon slippers, Nobel weirdos and cakes at dawn
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24camthings201913 Dec 2019: Image: The Trustees of the British Museum). If only the Babylonians had had access to the Bad News ‘fake news vaccine’. ... Image: M. Mizera / PTA / IAU100). From previous years. 2017: Dodgy robots, fake news and smart sheep. -
'Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/psychological-vaccine-could-help-immunise-public-against-fake-news-on-climate-change-study23 Jan 2017: Search. Search. Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study. ... Research. Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study.. -
newspapers | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/newspapers26 Jul 2024: Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study. -
On Putin
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/onputin3 Mar 2022: If there is too much unease back home in Russia, from too many Russian soldiers killed, or news filtering through of mass Ukrainian casualties, plus the continuing collapse of the Russian ... of ‘war’ is fake news, exaggerated by the West and by -
‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pre-bunk-tactics-reduce-public-susceptibility-to-covid-19-conspiracies-and-falsehoods-study-finds12 May 2021: By preemptively exposing people to a microdose of the methods used to disseminate fake news, we can help them identify and ignore it in the future.”. ... Every weapon in our arsenal should be used to fight the fake news that poses a threat to herd -
Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/viralpolitics22 Jun 2021: New York Times, MSNBC) and more conservative (e.g. Fox News, Breitbart) media outlets, and well over a half a million tweets from Republican Congress Members and the same again from ... The site includes “fake news scores” for all US Members of -
Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Hallucinate’ Word of the Year 2023 |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-dictionary-names-hallucinate-word-of-the-year-202315 Nov 2023: Inaccurate or misleading information has long been with us, of course, whether in the form of rumours, propaganda, or ‘fake news’. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
Talking about a revolution: 25 years of BT and Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/working-with-BT14 Oct 2022: versus news reporting and general chatter around the topic. -
Stuffed puppies, smart birds and self-healing robots
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings202219 Dec 2022: 2017: Dodgy robots, fake news and smart sheep. -
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tackling-covid-19-dr-sander-van-der-linden14 May 2020: It helps inoculate players against fake news and misinformation, including fake news about COVID-19. ... By actively exposing people to severely weakened doses of the tactics used to produce fake news, people gain psychological immunity (or mental -
#CamFest Speaker Spotlight
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/ayala-panievsky2 Mar 2023: But what I found in my fieldwork is that the populist campaign against “the fake news media” and the “enemies of the people” also transforms the way journalists are doing their ... People could have continued paying for online news, just like -
Did the Sixties dream die in 1969? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/did-the-sixties-dream-die-in-19691 Nov 2019: Meanwhile, the world of the early twenty-first century continues to plough headlong into its own deeply troubling period of postmodern politics, creepingly malevolent soft power and weaponised ‘fake news’. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly -
Extent of India’s COVID nudge campaign revealed | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/extent-of-indias-covid-nudge-campaign-revealed17 Sep 2020: The next day, the country entered phase 1 of lockdown. The government nudged to tackle fake news about the virus and to convince the population to strictly adhere to the rules, ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email -
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/game-combats-political-misinformation-by-letting-players-undermine-democracy6 Nov 2020: Twitter has started using a “pre-bunk” approach: highlighting types of fake news likely to be encountered in feeds during the US election. ... The game also reduced willingness to share fake news with others by 11%. -
Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/malicious-ai-report21 Feb 2018: Fake Obama created using AI video tool - BBC News. Fake Obama created using AI video tool - BBC News. ... BBC News: Cyber Attack: Ransomware causing chaos globally. BBC News: Cyber Attack: Ransomware causing chaos globally. -
Philosopher’s thumbs-down to social media ‘likes’ gets award…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/philosophers-thumbs-down-to-social-media-likes-gets-award-thumbs-up-from-royal-institute12 May 2021: Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-psychologist-helps-facebook-fight-climate-change-misinformation18 Feb 2021: Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
Cambridge Festival of Ideas puts truth under the spotlight |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-puts-truth-under-the-spotlight23 Aug 2017: Ariel Retik. Truth has dominated the news agenda in the last year and is the driving force of academic research. ... The theme of this year's 10th anniversary Festival is truth. From fake news, espionage and conspiracies to populist lies – the subject -
Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/social-media-posts-around-solar-geoengineering-spill-over-into-conspiracy-theories28 Feb 2023: Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
Rewarding accuracy instead of partisan pandering reduces political…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rewarding-accuracy-instead-of-partisan-pandering-reduces-political-divisions-over-the-truth6 Mar 2023: The findings suggest that fake news thrives on social media not only because people are tricked into believing it, but also due to a motivational imbalance: users have more incentive to ... This tiny sum was enough to make people 31% better at discerning -
Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/research-exposes-long-term-failure-of-russian-propaganda-in-ukraines-donbas-region3 May 2022: Our selection of the week's biggest Cambridge research news sent directly to your inbox. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
#CamFest Speaker Spotlight
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/sander-van-der-linden27 Feb 2023: It also spreads like a virus, which we know because we use models from epidemiology to understand how fake news spreads in social networks. ... What do people most struggle with in terms of distinguishing between fake news and actual news? -
Presenting facts as ‘consensus’ bridges conservative-liberal divide…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/presenting-facts-as-consensus-bridges-conservative-liberal-divide-over-climate-change11 Dec 2017: Scientists as a group are still viewed as trustworthy and non-partisan across the political spectrum in the US, despite frequent attempts to discredit their work through 'fake news' denunciations and ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge -
Popular COVID-19 conspiracies linked to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/popular-covid-19-conspiracies-linked-to-vaccine-hesitancy14 Oct 2020: The research reveals 'key predictors' for susceptibility to fake pandemic news, and finds that a small increase in the perceived reliability of conspiracies relates to a larger drop in the intention ... that helps 'inoculate' players against fake news by -
Horizons
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/horizons_issue_40.pdf19 Nov 2020: 12 Ad HocSearch for a vaccine (against fake news too), the £10m challenge, looking beyond the pandemic, and more. ... Fake news can travel faster and lodge itself deeper than the truth,” says Dr Sander van der Linden, who leads the project at Cambridge -
Uncertainty about facts can be reported without damaging public trust …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uncertainty-about-facts-can-be-reported-without-damaging-public-trust-in-news-study23 Mar 2020: In an era of fake news that might help foster trust.”. ... Disinformation often appears definitive, and fake news plays on a sense of certainty,” he said. -
COP must reverse rising pessimism over building sector…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cop-must-reverse-rising-pessimism-over-building-sector-decarbonisation-new-study-argues17 Nov 2022: misinformation and fake news. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email. -
Contaminating a fake rubber hand could help people overcome OCD,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/contaminating-a-fake-rubber-hand-could-help-people-overcome-ocd-study-suggests9 Jan 2020: Research. Contaminating a fake rubber hand could help people overcome OCD, study suggests.. ... Instead, to the left of the partition they see a fake right hand. -
Plucky underdogs, sausages in space and the winter that never ended
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings201819 Dec 2018: Robot cleaner suicide bombers, crashing fleets of driverless vehicles, commercial drones turned into face-targeting missiles, fabricated video to support fake news….
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