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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

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’,

9 Apr 2020: Dr van der Linden has also been speaking about the fake news surrounding how to protect against catching Covid-19, and Sir David continues to follow the lockdown and death rate ... If you have any news you would like to share, please get in touch by

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

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

17 Jan 2020: The hope with the game is that is acts like a ‘vaccine’, increasing scepticism of fake news by giving people a ‘weak dose’ of the methods behind disinformation. ... other areas) and this specific application for resilience against intentional

31 Dec 2020: Scams increased by 400% over the month of March, making Covid-19 the largest ever security threat.5 Misinformation and fake news campaigns about the virus furthered the distrust in digital ... A Rutgers-led6 study found that online misinformation, or

31 Dec 2020: Scams increased by 400% over the month of March, making Covid-19 the largest ever security threat.5 Misinformation and fake news campaigns about the virus furthered the distrust in digital ... A Rutgers-led6 study found that online misinformation, or

23 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

20 Oct 2020: children against online disinformation and ‘fake news’. This has been a high-profile issue in. ... recent years, with governments globally attempting to lessen the impact of fake news.