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How Digital Outrage Helps Misinformation Go Viral

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

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Study: Combined Approach More Effective at Fighting Election Misinformation

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

A researcher at Binghamton University, State University of New York has developed a tool to root out bogus, AI-generated research articles.

New AI Tool Detects Fake Scientific Articles with 94% Accuracy

Categories Technology

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Study Reveals Most Effective Method to Combat Science Misinformation

Categories Social Sciences

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Climate Skeptic Claims Gain Traction Through Repetition, Study Finds

Categories Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences

Communication professor JungHwan Yang is a member of a research team that explored the biases associated with political polls posted on social media, how their results compare with those reported by mainstream media and their potential influence on public discourse.

Will social media polls accurately predict the winner of the U.S. presidential election?

Categories Social Sciences

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Doctors Judge Patients for Sharing Incorrect Health Beliefs

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Spreading the word about virology research in an age of misinformation

Categories Technology

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It’s too easy to get around Facebook’s content policies

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

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Evaluating the truthfulness of fake news through online searches increases the chances of believing misinformation

Categories Social Sciences, Technology

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Psychological science can help counter spread of misinformation

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

The analysis revealed a strong statistical link between higher cognitive ability and having voted “Remain”.

Higher cognitive ability linked to higher chance of having voted against Brexit

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

Faces judged most often as (a) human and (b) AI. The stimulus type (AI or human; male or female), the stimulus ID (Nightingale & Farid, 2022), and the percentage of participants who judged the face as (a) human or (b) AI are listed below each face.

AI faces look more real than actual human face

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

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