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How We Can All Respond to Misinformation academic.oup.com/book/60489 by @leticiabode.bsky.social @ekvraga.bsky.social Needed: "...correcting publicly to build social norms around responding to misinformation." Platforms must "promote corrections & take action against toxic behaviors."

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“Overall, we found that the early studies on this topic have often produced inconclusive findings regarding the existence of uniquely persuasive or convincing effects of deepfake exposure.” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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“Bypassing” is a promising strategy for countering misinformation by sharing truthful, positively framed statements instead of direct corrections. New research shows it can correct misperceptions effectively, especially when people are still open to learning. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misg...

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Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

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In this new Registered Report, Gligorić et al. identify partisan differences in trust in scientists in the U.S. and find that several interventions fail to increase trust among conservatives. https://www.nature.c... #trustinscientists #scientists #ideology #trust

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📈New #PSPB research reveals cognitive reflection and open-minded thinking protect against misinformation, while conspiracy mentality increases susceptibility. Truth sensitivity matters more than bias in determining who falls for false information. 📖: ow.ly/580Q50VA86S

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New study finds that most people say others should put in high effort to respond to misinformation on social media, but they usually don’t follow through themselves. People are more likely to act when the person posting the misinformation is a close contact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

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“Our studies demonstrate that both partisans, generally, and strong partisans, specifically, presented with coherence-inducing news stories containing misinformation exerted less metacognitive effort, tended to overestimate the accuracy of the news stories, and agreed more with those news stories.”

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New research shows that memory strength, not just motivation, is the key to long-term misinformation resistance, with text- and video-based interventions proving more durable than game-based approaches. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/fighting-m... #MisinfoResearch

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“Reflection reduced Democrats’ willingness to spread fake news, yet it did not affect Republicans.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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“This is an assault, not on just one little group of researchers, this is saying certain kinds of knowledge is not to be supported by the government.” The Trump administration is actively breaking the law. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/06/m...

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Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

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🚨New WP🚨 Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers... osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Does fact-checking work? What the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41... @profsanderlinden.bsky.social: "Studies provide very consistent evidence that fact-checking does at least partially reduce misperceptions about false claims.” Yes, complex. Need to learn more. But need all tools!

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New summer institute for up-and-coming scholars across disciplines whose work investigates or intersects with disinformation: disinfoinstitute.org The first iteration will be this June in San Diego. Applications are due January 31.

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A new study reveals that the “illusion of objectivity” is a major factor in believing political misinformation. Partisans who viewed their own political side as unbiased and objective were, ironically, the most biased and least objective when assessing fake news. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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New study finds that Brazilian participants are more likely to endorse a conspiracy theory when a political leader from their political group supports it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MisinfoResearch

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Misinformation surged during 2024’s global elections, conflicts, and crises. Logically Facts breaks down the key narratives and their lasting impact.

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Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪 It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...

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If—like me—you always wanted to hear @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and @hugoreasoning.bsky.social discuss with each other whether there is a misinformation crisis, the wait is over—hear them do just that an find out who persuaded whom (or not) in this @undark.org podcast: https://buff.ly/41A70KC

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Truth or Dare? 🎲 Dare to check something is the truth before you share it. Make it a habit!

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🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Older adults' engagement with unreliable news stems from entrenched partisan bias rather than digital illiteracy or cognitive decline, according to new research. #DigitalLiteracy #FakeNews #MediaLiteracy #OlderAdults #PartisanBias

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵

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Now published in PNAS! We had a survey in the field at the time of the first assassination attempt on Trump. We found that Rs became significantly less supportive of partisan violence and had increased in-party affect. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Three Myths About Misinformation 1) People are bad at discerning true from false information 2) partisan bias is not a driving force in judgments of misinformation 3) gullibility to false information is the main factor underlying inaccurate beliefs journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco

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New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

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People share news articles without reading them about 75% of the time according to a new study. People are especially more likely to share articles without clicking on them when they align with their politics. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MisinfoResearch

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I was presenting a poster tonight at #psynom24 but health issues kept me from traveling. Here’s the poster I was presenting. We used ChatGPT to create DRM lists that resulted in true and false recognition rates that were nearly identical to prior DRM lists with the same critical lures.

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A study revealed that more than half of the health recommendations on The Dr. Oz Show were either unsupported by evidence or plain wrong. www.bmj.com/content/349/... #MisinfoResearch

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🚨Out in PNAS Nexus🚨 Content moderators can often get exposed to falsehoods In field studies with professional moderators, we show that exposure to false claims increases belief in those claims - BUT getting them to consider accuracy when exposed prevents this! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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I left Twitter and traded in my Tesla some time ago. I liked both but couldn’t take the association with Musk. I’m happy with my new car, and while it’s only been a few days, I’m really liking Bluesky.

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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I was unprepared for how much of my mid-career academic life would be spent evaluating others' work rather than creating my own. 🧵 1/

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