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Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads
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The influencer who “reverses” Lupus with smoothies. Psychiatrist Brooke Goldner makes extraordinary claims about incurable diseases. It’s brought her a mansion, a Ferrari, and a huge social following.
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Can a movie change the law? The 1961 film 'Victim' isn't just a tense thriller, it was crafted to serve as a stealthy challenge to a British law that criminalized the very existence of homosexuals.
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Generative AI - We aren’t ready
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Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong
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Scientists explain why ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies
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Gaza and the future of information warfare
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The truth behind all that cortisol talk. What exactly is high cortisol? A debunking guide.
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How gender-affirming health care for kids works in Canada
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Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news
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Human microbiome myths and misconceptions
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‘Verified’ OSINT accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem
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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation
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AI is ruining the Internet
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Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
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People are lying to you and will continue to lie about the merits of the Donald Trump US indictment - be aware
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Five myths in the US House of Representatives anti-trans hearing against gender affirming care
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A fact-checked debate about euthanasia
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Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing
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I interviewed the researcher behind the Misinformation Susceptibility Test
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM But some important context: Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an...
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM
But some important context:Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an indicator of someones media biases.
I started digging into the related paper and while the methods and analysis was interesting, there was still a lot of questions. So I reached out to Dr Rakoen Maertens who headed the study and we agreed to a discussion on the assessment and his experiences in social psychology.
The video above is an unlisted, unedited cut of the interview and I'd love to get some feedback:
Firstly: I have offered the Dr a tildes invite and he may engage with any questions or discussion. Time was limited and there were a lot of topics that was only briefly touched on or overlooked. Here is the original paper and supplementary resources if you want to see some of the language model work and bigger 100 question tests.
Secondly: I am going to do a more through edit and posting this on a dedicated channel. Since cutting off reddit, twitter and tiktoc; I've sort of rediscovered a love learning and investigations. I'd like to know if people like this form of engagement and discussions. No fancy production, just simply engaging with the research and academics behind topical and interesting ideas.
I'm already reading into fandom psychology, UV reflective paint, children's TV and CO2 scrubbing technology.
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Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score?
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A one-of-a-kind bat research facility coming to Fort Collins has CSU scientists fighting misinformation
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Truth
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Solar storm risks and the threat of large-scale internet outage examined
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US Democrats and Republicans share core values but still distrust each other
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Inside Big Beef’s climate messaging machine: Confuse, defend and downplay
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How Finland is teaching a generation to spot misinformation
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New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
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I lost my boyfriend to cancer conspiracy theories
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
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The REAL reason ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle!!!
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Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler
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TikTok is changing the way we talk about ADHD—for better and worse
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As the midterm elections approach in the US, does Finland have the answer to fake news?
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‘Pre-bunking’ online misinformation
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Much ado about nothing – Sanna Marin and a very Finnish scandal
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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How politics poisoned the Evangelical church
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Pinterest bans climate change misinformation and conspiracy theories
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Neil Young pulls his music from Spotify after his ultimatum regarding Joe Rogan and ‘fake information about vaccines’
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Germany’s promising plan to bring conspiracy theorists back from the brink
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How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack – many international media outlets picked up on speculative tweets
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No, you’re not ‘just asking questions.’ You’re spreading disinformation.
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If you had to teach a class about information literacy, what would your key points be?
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and...
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and a lot of the recommendations it gives feel a little limited/dated, or just out of touch with current internet practices (e.g. trust .edu and .gov sites -- don't trust .com sites; use Britannica Online instead of Wikipedia). It also doesn't really account for things like memes, social media, or really much of the modern internet landscape.
I know we have a lot of very technically literate as well as informationally literate people here, and I'm curious: if you were tasked with creating a class to help people learn information literacy, including how to identify misinformation online, what would some of your key points or focuses be? How would you convey those to your students (whether those students are kids, adults, or both)?
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A spokesman led the international media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza. They hadn’t. But the army wanted Hamas to think they had.
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Joe Rogan spread anti-vaccine misinformation. Spotify's CEO redirects and refuses to address problematic behavior.
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Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
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Facebook built the perfect platform for Covid vaccine conspiracies
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