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Psychology & interventionsPlatforms, policy & society
Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)?Wardle uses a scenario-based approach to teach audiences how disinformation campaigns operate by role-playing as a malicious actor. The video demonstrates a real election disinformation strategy: creating fake accounts, spreading memes, exploiting confirmation bias to suppress opposing voters, making false voting claims, spreading…
Psychology & interventionsPlatforms, policy & society
The dangers of the partisan brainOur brains are shaped by partisan identity to perceive reality differently, even when presented with identical evidence. Research shows that both liberals and conservatives reject factual information that contradicts their political beliefs—a phenomenon driven by motivated reasoning, structural differences in brain architecture, and…
Psychology & interventionsPlatforms, policy & society
Do politics make us irrational?A 2013 study of 1,100 adults showed that political identity overrides mathematical ability: participants solved identical data-interpretation problems accurately when answers were neutral, but when the correct answer contradicted their political beliefs, even mathematically skilled participants failed. This partisan bias stems from…
Psychology & interventionsDetection methods
Measuring and Reducing Misinformation SusceptibilityJon Roozenbeek presents two major contributions: (1) the Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST), a psychometrically validated 20-item measure of how well people distinguish true from false headlines, and (2) findings that video-based inoculation interventions teaching manipulation techniques significantly improve people's ability to…
Platforms, policy & societySpread & networks
Investigating Media Manipulation and DisinformationResearchers at Harvard Kennedy School present frameworks and practical tools for investigating online media manipulation. Joan Donovan introduces mediammanipulation.org's encyclopedia of manipulation tactics and a detailed case study of how the COVID lab-leak disinformation campaign exploited academic preprint archives.
Psychology & interventionsDetection methods
Why People Believe Misinformation — and What We Can Do About ItJon Roozenbeek synthesizes eight years of misinformation research, examining why people believe false information and what interventions actually work. Grounding the analysis in the historical tobacco disinformation playbook, he argues that misinformation susceptibility stems not primarily from poor reasoning, but from media consumption…
Psychology & interventionsFact-checking & verification
Psychological Inoculation Against MisinformationSander van der Linden surveys the psychology of misinformation susceptibility and defends the approach of psychological inoculation (pre-bunking) over fact-checking (debunking). He introduces the MIST (Misinformation Susceptibility Test), a psychometrically validated instrument for measuring individual variation in susceptibility to…