Fake news’ power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning, study finds

This entry was posted in Social TC and tagged facebook on January 23, 2017 by Natasha Lomas

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 Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread of misinformation online — involving the use of pro-active warnings designed to contextualize and pre-expose web users to related but fake information in order to debunk factual distortion in advance. Read More

Fake news’ power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning, study finds

This entry was posted in Social TC and tagged facebook on January 23, 2017 by Natasha Lomas

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 Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread of misinformation online — involving the use of pro-active warnings designed to contextualize and pre-expose web users to related but fake information in order to debunk factual distortion in advance. Read More

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