Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
How much does misinformation affect the people who consume it? Researchers at MIT and Penn set out to analyze the impact of 13,000 headlines on vaccination intentions among roughly 233 million U.S.-based Facebook users. Read more from Science Alert, including what type of content had the biggest influence over vaccine hesitancy. https://flip.it/jbP52i #Science#Health#SocialMedia#Misinformation
If you compare platforms like Facebook/Tiktok/YouTube to newspapers or TV news in the 1980s, they both had that huge benefit from posting news first. But the latter had editors, professional journalists, and more accountability; and they were far more accurate.
It seems to be especially a problem with social media. There's no editorial check before publication, and very few platforms hire enough moderators to police their content—there's not enough financial incentive
Ep.1 is about The Well and British Journalist #JamieBartlett claims that The Well was the world's first social network.
Before he was even born the Brits (and Europeans!) were running big, successful online social media sites and I think we mostly understood the potential consequences.
From an American? Fine - But come on BBC/Jamie! Do your research or get Tom Sandage to fact-check a little. Grr!
Russia may launch psychological operation about opening new front from Belarus
Defense Council Center for Countering #Disinformation forecast launch of a new #Russian#psychological operation about opening a new front aiming to stir up mass panic in Ukrainian society
We expect a series of provocative statements by the top leadership of Russia and #Belarus#threatening#Ukraine soon
"After The Markup first reported on how Ohlala regularly translated misleading far-right websites like The Gateway Pundit and Newsmax into Vietnamese, more than a dozen Vietnamese community members asked The Markup to dig further. They wanted to know why she was broadcasting in Vietnamese and why her videos were so heavily pro-Trump. Several community members also shared suspicions that she was a Russian agent..."
@bicmay I know there are groups tracking and tackling political misinformation targeting Chinese Am communities. Do you know anything similar in Vietnamese communities?
⭐ Last year's theme for our games was #criticalthinking because it's clear bad actors will continue to use mis/disinformation to influence and harm young people.
We'll do what we can to prevent this through the use of intentionally designed prosocial video games.
Here are some tips from our free game 'MushWhom?' for students
💡 Be Curious
💡 Be Questioning
💡 Be Open
The narrator (Critical Thinking Cat) shares these tips and how they apply both to the game & to real-life.
Company posts #misinformation about me. Company continues to post misinformation about me after I tell them what they wrote was false. Here is the consequence.
@msquebanh At least one a day! They all believe this search engine program called Semrush. Iʼve alerted Semrush, to no avail, so five months on I continue to do this.
In AP's fact check of "fake news" this week, they highlighted that the ICC did not actually issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. That was a little unclear to me on Monday, because of this headline from #UnitedPressInternational, which was on the front page of their site Monday:
"ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, 3 Hamas Leaders"