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Showing posts with label Misinformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Misinformation. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2025

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

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Jefff Horwitz Reuters.com Originally posted 14 Aug 25 An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitt...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Exposure to Higher Rates of False News Erodes Media Trust and Fuels Overconfidence

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Altay, S., Lyons, B. A., & Modirrousta-Galian, A. (2024). Mass Communication & Society, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2024....
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Deepfake detection with and without content warnings

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Lewis, A., Vu, P., Duch, R. M., & Chowdhury, A. (2023). Royal Society Open Science, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231214 Abstract...
Monday, November 18, 2024

A Call to Address AI “Hallucinations” and How Healthcare Professionals Can Mitigate Their Risks

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Hatem, R., Simmons, B., & Thornton, J. E. (2023). Cureus, 15(9), e44720. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44720 Abstract Artificial intell...
Monday, October 14, 2024

This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

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Helena Kudiabor Nature.com Originally posted 12 Sept 24 Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) could be a valuable tool in...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Humanizing Chatbots Is Hard To Resist — But Why?

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Madeline G. Reinecke Practical Ethics Originally posted 30 Aug 24 You might recall a story from a few years ago, concerning former Google so...
Friday, August 23, 2024

A Self-Righteous, Not a Virtuous, Circle: Proposing a New Framework for Studying Media Effects on Knowledge and Political Participation in a Social Media Environment

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Lee, S., & Valenzuela, S. (2024). Social Media + Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241257953 Abstract To explain the parti...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Human-Algorithm Interactions Help Explain the Spread of Misinformation

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McLoughlin, K. L., & Brady, W. J. (2023). Current Opinion in Psychology, 101770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101770 Abstract H...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline

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Brian Kennedy & Alec Tyson Pew Research Originally published 14 NOV 23 Impact of science on society Overall, 57% of Americans say scienc...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Science and Ethics of “Curing” Misinformation

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Freiling, I., Knause, N.M., & Scheufele, D.A. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(3) :E228-237.  doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.228. Abstract A growing ...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible

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Altay, S., & Acerbi, A. (2023). New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231153379 Abstract Alarmist narratives ab...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Bullshit blind spots: the roles of miscalibration and information processing in bullshit detection

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Shane Littrell & Jonathan A. Fugelsang (2023) Thinking & Reasoning DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2023.2189163 Abstract The growing prevalen...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

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David Lee Bloomberg.com Originally published 5 October 23 Here is an excerpt: Social networks are molded by the incentives presented to user...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Not all skepticism is “healthy” skepticism: Theorizing accuracy- and identity-motivated skepticism toward social media misinformation

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Li, J. (2023).  New Media & Society, 0(0).  https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231179941 Abstract Fostering skepticism has been seen as key...
Monday, August 28, 2023

'You can't bullshit a bullshitter' (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information

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Littrell, S., Risko, E. F., & Fugelsang, J. A. (2021). The British journal of social psychology, 60(4),  1484–1505. https://doi.org/10.1...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Social Media and Morality

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Van Bavel, J. J., Robertson, C. et al. (2023, June 6). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ywevq Abstract Nearly five billion people around the ...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

When Did Medicine Become a Battleground for Everything?

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Tara Haelle Medscape.com Originally posted 18 July 23 Like hundreds of other medical experts, Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician and form...
Monday, July 24, 2023

How AI can distort human beliefs

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Kidd, C., & Birhane, A. (2023, June 23). Science, 380(6651), 1222-1223. doi:10.1126/science. adi0248 Here is an excerpt: Three core tene...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Conspirituality: How New Age conspiracy theories threaten public health

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D. Beres, M. Remski, & J. Walker bigthink.com Originally posted 17 June 23 Here is an excerpt: Disaster capitalism and disaster spiritua...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Stolen elections: How conspiracy beliefs during the 2020 American presidential elections changed over time

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Wang, H., & Van Prooijen, J. (2022). Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3996 Abstract Conspiracy beliefs have bee...