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How Education & Social Media Regulation Can Combat Science Denial

Five billion people use social media globally, and millions of posts are shared on Meta (Facebook) every minute. While a…

2 weeks ago
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Why Some People Don’t Trust Science & How To Change Their Minds

During the pandemic, a third of people in the UK reported that their trust in science had increased, we recently…

4 months ago
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Ignore, Rebut And Embrace: How To Shut Down Conspiracies

Australia’s recent Indigenous Voice referendum was marred by baseless allegations about what it actually meant, including the claim that a…

5 months ago
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Scrolling Into Stress: How Climate Fears Hit The Youth Of Today

Our young people are getting a dose of social media-driven eco-anxiety over the environment. There are ways we can help…

7 months ago
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Reasons Why Stereotyping Increases During Economic Crises

It’s been almost exactly 15 years since Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy, marking the height of the financial crisis. Since then,…

7 months ago
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How Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and…

8 months ago
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Using Social Media Images To Better Respond To Disasters

A team of researchers trained an artificial intelligence tool using a million photos of disasters to recognise disasters and incidents…

9 months ago
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Visual Misinformation Is Rife On Facebook

How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or…

10 months ago
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Withdraw ‘Draconian’ Amendments To IT Rules: Editors’ Guild

The Editors' Guild of India on Friday said it was "deeply disturbed" by the "draconian" amendments to the Information Technology…

1 year ago
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Ripe For An Avalanche Of Misinformation

Seeing might not be believing going forward as digital technologies make the fight against misinformation even trickier for embattled social…

1 year ago

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