Misinformation often has a continuing influence on event-related reasoning even when it is clearly and credibly corrected; this is referred to as the continued influence effect . The present work investigated whether a correction's effectiveness can be improved by explaining the origins of the ...
(Basol et al., 2021), and Cranky Uncle (Cook et al., 2022) teach players common techniques for promoting misinformation in the hope that this has an inoculating effect (van der Linden et al., 2020). They generally also allow for data collection and can thus be used for research ...
Not only can belief in misinformation lead to poor judgements and decision-making, it also exerts a lingering influence on people’s reasoning after it has been corrected — an effect known as the continued influence effect. In this Review, we describe the cognitive, social and affective factors...
However, research by Van Bergen, Horselenberg, Merckelbach, Jelicic, and Beckers (2010) found memory distrust correlated with the tendency to yield to the misinformation effect, which consists of giving testimony about an event that includes misinformation about the event stemming from post-event ...
The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to misinformation can undermine vaccination uptake and compliance with public-health guidelines. As research on the science of misinformatio...
Even though at the level of local information, negativity is regarded as misinformation and can be interpreted, for example, operationally in terms of changes in belief [35], when considering information in the context of communication [36], then interpreting it as the number of messages to be...
Without proper guidance and responsible design, LLMs are vulnerable to generating and disseminating misinformation or content that may be harmful, inaccurate, or both. Their massive scale further amplifies the consequences of such missteps. Nonetheless, if appropriately harnessed, they can serve as ...
The rise and spread of the term on social media resulted in a similar increase in search interest on Google. Between August 2023 and July 2024, there was no significant trend in the usage of the worddemure. By the week of August 18, 2024, however, there was almost 14 times more interes...
There is a growing concern about Facebook trying to lead the way into a virtual world that could require even more personal data and offer greater potential for abuse and misinformation when it hasn’t fixed those problems in its current platforms. 32. Why is Zuckerberg changing the name of ...
the-looking-glass politics, to weaponize something is to turn a legitimate issue or concern into a tool for inflicting political damage. Recently, for example, Republican lawmakers accused misinformation researchers of censorship, even though they were the ones doing the censoring by issuing subpoena...