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  2. fake news | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/fake-news
    3 Jun 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
  3. Foolproof: A psychological vaccine against fake news

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/foolproof
    Thumbnail for Foolproof: A psychological vaccine against fake news 6 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.
  4. Vaccinating against fake news | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/vaccinating-against-fake-news
    Thumbnail for Vaccinating against fake news | University of Cambridge 17 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.
  5. Topics | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics
    3 Jun 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
  6. ‘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-story
    Thumbnail for ‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story | University of Cambridge 26 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
  7. News | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/news
    3 Jun 2024: Search. Search. News. Public engagement. News..
  8. media | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/media
    3 Jun 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
  9. 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-disinformation
    Thumbnail for Fake news ‘vaccine’ works: ‘pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation | University of Cambridge 25 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”).
  10. Cambridge game ‘pre-bunks’ coronavirus conspiracies

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/goviral
    Thumbnail for Cambridge game ‘pre-bunks’ coronavirus conspiracies 11 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’,
  11. 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-festival
    Thumbnail for Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay Festival | University of Cambridge 26 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..
  12. behaviour | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/behaviour
    3 Jun 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.
  13. Gates Scholar Melisa Basol on inoculating against fake news |…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gates-scholar-melisa-basol-on-inoculating-against-fake-news
    Thumbnail for Gates Scholar Melisa Basol on inoculating against fake news | University of Cambridge 11 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.
  14. Do try this at home | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/get-involved/do-try-this-at-home
    17 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.
  15. The Misinformation Susceptibility Test

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/misinformation-susceptibility-test
    Thumbnail for The Misinformation Susceptibility Test 29 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.
  16. politics | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/politics
    3 Jun 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
  17. 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-tactics
    Thumbnail for Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics | University of Cambridge 20 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.
  18. Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017 begins | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-2017-begins
    Thumbnail for Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017 begins | University of Cambridge 16 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.
  19. The Cambridge Series at Hay Festival | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/public-engagement/the-cambridge-series-at-hay-festival
    20 Mar 2018: Vaccinating against fake news. ... How do we counter fake news and can we inoculate public opinion about misinformation?
  20. Cambridge commended for communication of research

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/CASEawards2022
    Thumbnail for Cambridge commended for communication of research 28 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
  21. Psychology | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/Psychology
    3 Jun 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
  22. Hay Festival | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/Hay-Festival
    3 Jun 2024: Fake news, black holes and AI: Cambridge academics to speak at Hay Festival.
  23. Pigeon slippers, Nobel weirdos and cakes at dawn

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24camthings2019
    Thumbnail for Pigeon slippers, Nobel weirdos and cakes at dawn 13 Dec 2019: Image: The Trustees of the British Museum). If only the Babylonians had had access to the Bad Newsfake news vaccine’. ... Image: M. Mizera / PTA / IAU100). From previous years. 2017: Dodgy robots, fake news and smart sheep.
  24. '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-study
    Thumbnail for 'Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study | University of Cambridge 23 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..
  25. newspapers | University of Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/topics/newspapers
    3 Jun 2024: Psychological vaccine’ could help immunise public against ‘fake news’ on climate change – study.
  26. On Putin

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/onputin
    Thumbnail for On Putin 3 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
  27. Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Hallucinate’ Word of the Year 2023 |…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-dictionary-names-hallucinate-word-of-the-year-2023
    Thumbnail for Cambridge Dictionary names ‘Hallucinate’ Word of the Year 2023 | University of Cambridge 15 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.
  28. Thumbnail for Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral 22 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
  29. ‘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-finds
    Thumbnail for ‘Pre-bunk’ tactics reduce public susceptibility to COVID-19 conspiracies and falsehoods, study finds | University of Cambridge 12 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
  30. Talking about a revolution: 25 years of BT and Cambridge

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/working-with-BT
    Thumbnail for Talking about a revolution: 25 years of BT and Cambridge 14 Oct 2022: versus news reporting and general chatter around the topic.
  31. Stuffed puppies, smart birds and self-healing robots

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings2022
    Thumbnail for Stuffed puppies, smart birds and self-healing robots 19 Dec 2022: 2017: Dodgy robots, fake news and smart sheep.
  32. 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-linden
    Thumbnail for Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden | University of Cambridge 14 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
  33. #CamFest Speaker Spotlight

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/ayala-panievsky
    Thumbnail for #CamFest Speaker Spotlight 2 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
  34. Extent of India’s COVID nudge campaign revealed | University of…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/extent-of-indias-covid-nudge-campaign-revealed
    Thumbnail for Extent of India’s COVID nudge campaign revealed | University of Cambridge 17 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
  35. Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/game-combats-political-misinformation-by-letting-players-undermine-democracy
    Thumbnail for Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy | University of Cambridge 6 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%.
  36. Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/malicious-ai-report
    Thumbnail for Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report 21 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.
  37. 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-institute
    Thumbnail for Philosopher’s thumbs-down to social media ‘likes’ gets award thumbs-up from Royal Institute | University of Cambridge 12 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.
  38. Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-psychologist-helps-facebook-fight-climate-change-misinformation
    Thumbnail for Cambridge psychologist helps Facebook fight climate change misinformation | University of Cambridge 18 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.
  39. Cambridge Festival of Ideas puts truth under the spotlight |…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-puts-truth-under-the-spotlight
    Thumbnail for Cambridge Festival of Ideas puts truth under the spotlight | University of Cambridge 23 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
  40. 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-theories
    Thumbnail for Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy theories | University of Cambridge 28 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.
  41. 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-truth
    Thumbnail for Rewarding accuracy instead of partisan pandering reduces political divisions over the truth | University of Cambridge 6 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
  42. 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-region
    Thumbnail for Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda | University of Cambridge 3 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.
  43. #CamFest Speaker Spotlight

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/sander-van-der-linden
    Thumbnail for #CamFest Speaker Spotlight 27 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?
  44. Popular COVID-19 conspiracies linked to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ |…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/popular-covid-19-conspiracies-linked-to-vaccine-hesitancy
    Thumbnail for Popular COVID-19 conspiracies linked to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ | University of Cambridge 14 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
  45. 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-change
    Thumbnail for Presenting facts as ‘consensus’ bridges conservative-liberal divide over climate change | University of Cambridge 11 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
  46. Horizons

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/horizons_issue_40.pdf
    19 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
  47. 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-study
    Thumbnail for Uncertainty about facts can be reported without damaging public trust in news – study | University of Cambridge 23 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.
  48. Keynote address, Ashoka University, India, 13 February 2019 |…

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/vice-chancellor/speeches/keynote-address-ashoka
    30 May 2023: Critical thinking helps us rise above confrontation and conflict. It helps us see through the fake news, through the soundbites and the ill-considered tweets.
  49. 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-argues
    Thumbnail for COP must reverse rising pessimism over building sector decarbonisation | University of Cambridge 17 Nov 2022: misinformation and fake news. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email.
  50. 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-suggests
    Thumbnail for Contaminating a fake rubber hand could help people overcome OCD, study suggests | University of Cambridge 9 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.
  51. Plucky underdogs, sausages in space and the winter that never ended

    https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/24CamThings2018
    Thumbnail for Plucky underdogs, sausages in space and the winter that never ended 19 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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