Jackson G. Lu¶
Jackson G. Lu is a researcher at MIT investigating how individuals make decisions about information, with applications to misinformation spread on social media and behavioral interventions to improve information quality online.
Key works¶
- Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media (Pennycook et al., 2020) — Shows that brief accuracy-focused interventions substantially improve truth discrimination when sharing health misinformation on social platforms.
Areas of research¶
- Decision-making and judgment
- Misinformation and information quality
- Behavioral interventions