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The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s […]
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The terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public discourse over the last year. This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation, how it influences people, and […]
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Comments on an article by Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K.H. Ecker & John Cook (see record 2017-57700-001). Based on combating misinformation, Lewandowsky et al. made narrow recommendations for future cognitive research, […]
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A growing number of politicians are talking nonsense with impunity. False information is proliferating. What’s worse, the human brain loves it.
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The present experiment (N=390) examined how people adjust their judgment after they learn that crucial information on which their initial evaluation was based is incorrect. In line with our expectations, […]
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Large numbers of Americans endorse political rumors on surveys. But do they truly believe what they say? In this paper, I assess the extent to which subscription to political rumors […]
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Can citizens heed factual information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological attachments? The “backfire effect,” described by Nyhan and Reifler says no: rather than simply ignoring factual […]
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Can citizens heed factual information, even when such information challenges their partisan and ideological attachments? The “backfire effect,” described by Nyhan and Reifler (Polit Behav 32(2):303–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2, 2010), says no: […]
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Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, […]
