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Misinformation Studies
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist's crystal ball.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
If you want to share the truths about our Universe with others, don't fall into the trap of arguing with a misinformer. Do this instead.
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
A new study shows that political partisans are more likely to remember things that didn't happen — as long as it fits their narrative.
Yes, there are reasons to worry about Twitter, but it's not about the bots.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
John Templeton Foundation
AI-generated photos, also known as synthetic media, are being used to create fake experts and journalists to spread disinformation.
Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.
Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.
When actual people correct misinformation online, it can be as effective, if not more so, as when a social media company labels something as questionable.
As the demonstrations grew, so did the internet service disruptions.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.
In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.
Between fake vaccine passports and targeted supply chain attacks, things are only getting more risky.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]
Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]
The first COVID-19 vaccines are here. So are the anti-vaxxers. Over the past year, most of us have learned more about coronaviruses than we ever thought we’d need to know. […]
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]