Search

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’,

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

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.

13 Feb 2020: Arundhati Roy’s Clark Lecture 2020. 13/02/2020. Arundhati Roy’s Clark Lecture 2020, ‘The Graveyard Talks Back: Fiction in the Time of Fake News,’ is published below. ... Read The Graveyard Talks Back-Fiction in the Time of Fake News.

20 Oct 2020: Connecting Education: Fake News, Science Teaching and Critical Literacy. The Inquiring Science Conference. ... Yet. the issue of fake news and access to large quantities of 24-hour information means that a high percentage.

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

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

19 Oct 2020: Churchill Fellows Dr Jon Roozenbeek and Dr Sander van der Linden are behind a new online game that puts players in the shoes of a purveyor of fake pandemic news. ... They also co-authored a study which shows that poor numerical literacy is linked to

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%.