Countering Misinformation Evidence Knowledge Gaps And Implications

Publication authors: Jon Roozenbeek, Jane Suiter, Eileen Culloty Publication link: Countering misinformation: Evidence, knowledge gaps, and implications of current interventions EDMO Ireland is one of fourteen hubs established as part of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). Coordinated by Dr Eileen Culloty from Dublin City University (DCU), the EDMO Ireland consortium includes the DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo), TheJournal FactCheck, NewsWhip, and the University of Sheffield. It is part-financed by the European Union to monitor and analyse disinformation; conduct factchecks and investigations; develop media literacy resources; as... Nature Human Behaviour volume 8, pages 1044–1052 (2024)Cite this article

The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation. Comprising an up-to-date account of interventions featured in 81 scientific papers from across the globe, the toolbox provides both a conceptual overview of nine main types of interventions, including their target, scope and examples,... The nine types of interventions covered are accuracy prompts, debunking and rebuttals, friction, inoculation, lateral reading and verification strategies, media-literacy tips, social norms, source-credibility labels, and warning and fact-checking labels. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription These international instances demonstrate the potency and adaptability of creative remediation techniques in dealing with POP pollution. They demonstrate the possibility for cleaner and healthier ecosystems on a global scale by providing insightful information on the flexibility and beneficial effects of various strategies (Blair et al., 2023). The lessons learnt and ongoing problems of combating Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in soil and water must be examined in the thorough examination of new remediation solutions. Still, many open questions about inoculation research in the context of misinformation remain, including the lack of cross-cultural research, conceptual confusion around the term “prebunking”, potentially undesirable side effects of the inoculation treatment, as...

The overwhelming majority of inoculation and misinformation research (Badrinathan & Chauchard, 2023; Blair et al., 2023) has been conducted in predominantly Western, Educated, Industrialized, and Rich Democracies (WEIRD). In the context of misinformation this seems especially prudent given that citizens in other parts of the world likely have very different relationships and histories with (state-controlled) media, propaganda, and censorship suggesting there could...

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