There is no standardised way of defining or measuring psychological harm or distress in the online world.
- Professor of Policy Impact, University of Leeds
AI are using data from neuroscience to try to get better at spotting fake news.
There is a trade-off between the level of personalisation we want, and the amount of data we are willing to give.
Most studies suggests that fake news is more likely to enhance existing beliefs and views rather than radically change voting intentions of those who are undecided.
Fewer and fewer people believe man-made climate change is a hoax.
We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.
Kita sering menganggap misinformasi bisa mengarahkan pada keyakinan yang salah, dan kemudian menyebabkan perilaku antisosial. Sejauh ini hanya ada sedikit bukti yang mendukung argumentasi tersebut.
We often assume misinformation leads to bad beliefs which lead to antisocial behaviour. But there’s so far little evidence for this.
We tend to think everyone is affected by sly, psychological techniques – except ourselves.
The behavioural technique may not be dead just quite yet.
Communication helps group members to size up the intentions of the others.
Can you really nudge people into washing their hands more? The evidence is far from perfect.
Decades of research gives insight into how free our choices really are.
Slovakia successfully launched mass testing and certification after a second wave of coronavirus.
Many more people have been infected with coronavirus than the statistics suggest.
Necesitamos actualizar los modelos sobre las tasas de mortalidad o introducir pruebas verdaderamente aleatorias para entender el verdadero impacto del coronavirus.
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.
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