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Fostering trust in the digital age: ensuring the quality of online information
If there is one thing the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, it is how digital misinformation can severely impact public discourse and decision-making. It underscores the critical need for reliable scholarly communication online. We discuss these challenges with Dr. Suzanne Dumouchel, co-coordinator of OPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in humanities and social ...
Sander van der Linden on how psychological inoculation protects against false news
Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Professor van der Linden, we have seen many attempts to debunk climate and health disinformation. How well do fact checks fare? Sander van der Linden: ...
Interview with Dan Larhammar: “Disinformation can have severe consequences for human health and our economies”
A group of European scientists (including Dan Larhammar) has made it their mission to raise awareness about disinformation, its mechanisms and its dangers. They belong to ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities. This organisation brings researchers from all over Europe together; in various working groups and projects they explore topics of ...
ESMH Media Review – May 12, 2021
Disinformation, AI & Covid-19: check out the ESMH selection of 29 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web.
Quality information given by experts is like a vaccine against falsehoods
Scientists and experts should be available to communicate with the media, or their spot will be taken by false experts. But providing more information to the audience can also have a negative side effect: overconfidence.
EU project: FARE
FARE : The fight against fake news is real. People worldwide are exposed to large-scale disinformation, including misleading or false information. The European Commission has made it a priority to tackle the spread and impact of online disinformation (defined as ‘verifiably false or misleading information created, presented and disseminated for economic gain or to intentionally ...
Michael Butter: “Education can help against conspiracy theories”
Michael Butter is Professor of American Studies at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of The Nature of Conspiracy Theories (Polity, 2020) and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Populism and Conspiracy Theory. This year you co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories along with Peter Knight. Can you talk about some of ...
ESMH Media Review – February 3, 2021
Digital communication, COVID-19 & Horizon Europe. Check out the ESMH selection of 22 science and tech news published in the last weeks on the web.