Skeptical Comments Reduce Belief in Dubious Social Media Claims
A new study finds that skeptical comments, whether textual or image-based, reduce belief in dubious social media claims, with direct ...
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Fake news studies lean on wildly different stimuli, scoping review finds
A systematic scoping review of 881 psychology studies finds that fake news stimuli vary enormously in source, number, framing and ...
AI Fact-Checks Read Better Than They Argue, and Readers Prefer Them Anyway
A study of 1,498 COVID-19 fact-checks found readers preferred LLM-written explanations over human ones despite the AI texts scoring lower ...
Generative AI Shapes the Full Lifecycle of Health Misinformation, Review Finds
A new narrative review argues that generative AI simultaneously produces, detects, corrects, and amplifies the consequences of health misinformation across ...
Corrections Can Outrun Misinformation Only If They Start Early, Model Finds
A survey of 266 participants combined with agent-based simulations on three network types shows that corrections can carry a higher ...
Conversational AI Chatbots Make Misinformation More Believable, Study Warns
A Penn State study of 477 participants found that the more conversational an AI chatbot sounds, the more users trust ...
Right Tone, Not Right Source: How AI Wins at Correcting Health Misinformation
New Washington State University research shows AI corrections of medical misinformation persuade best when their tone matches whether users see ...
Debunking Works: Massive Real-World Test Shows Climate Myth Rebuttals Shift Minds
A four-year field experiment on the Skeptical Science website found its climate myth rebuttals significantly reduced belief in misinformation and ...
Europe Tests Its Anti-Disinformation Arsenal in Landmark 3.5 Million Euro Project
A new 3.5 million euro Horizon Europe project coordinated by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz will test twenty existing European counter-disinformation ...
New AI Model Learns to Pick Its Own Evidence in the Fight Against Fake News
Researchers have developed DES-CMR, an AI model that learns to select and reason over evidence documents end to end while ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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