Fact checks effectively counter COVID misinformation

How fact-checking is evolving — and having a real impact on the world

Fact checks will not alter long-held worldviews, but they can significantly influence readers' understanding and reduce belief in misinformation.

Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures

Organizations and researchers are working to contrast this misinformation plague. In this setting, human assessors are indispensable to correctly ...

How to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation - CDC

The first step to addressing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in your community is learning more about it, including where it starts and when, why, and ...

Facts & Fact Checking - Research and data from Pew Research ...

Read a Q&A with Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research at Pew Research Center, on a new report that explores Americans' ability to distinguish factual ...

Google's approach to fighting misinformation online

How does Google help people around the world find the information they are looking for while fighting the spread of misinformation online?

Vaccine Misinformation Outpaces Efforts to Counter It

Misinformation about vaccines has proliferated on social media where it has led to rising levels of vaccine hesitancy at a faster rate than interventions are ...

Fact-Checked Misinformation - Transparency Center

Content that has been debunked as "False, Altered, or Partly False" by non-partisan, third-party fact-checking organizations who partner with Meta.

Africa Check: Sorting Facts from Fakes

The rise in disinformation in Africa poses a threat to security, public health, and democracy. Combatting this requires building the ...

The effects of news source credibility and fact-checker credibility on ...

Abstract. Purpose. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the extent to which credibility of news sources and fact-checkers individually ...

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical ...

We apply this framework to quantify the impact that (mis)information on Facebook had on COVID-19 vaccination intentions in the US.

Online disinformation - Canada.ca

Disinformation is false information that is deliberately intended to mislead. It is sometimes called “fake news”.

Disinformation: sources, spread and impact - UK Parliament

Misinformation is the inadvertent spread of such content. •. Disinformation spreads through a complex interaction of social media, online news ...

A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking - MIT Press Direct

In this paper, we survey automated fact-checking stemming from natural language processing, and discuss its connections to related tasks and disciplines.

Work in Progress - Carlos Scartascini

It is particularly relevant when addressing misinformation on topics such as health and toxic speech. "Disaster and Political Trust: A Natural Experiment from ...

Misinformation and news quality on digital platforms in Australia

Recent. Australian research found that nearly two-thirds (66 per cent) of people say they have encountered misinformation about COVID-19 on social media.3 The ...

What interventions can be used to counter misinformation effectively?

Debunking, prebunking, literacy training, and nudging approaches focus on changing individual behaviors.

Interventions to Counter Misinformation: Lessons from the Global ...

Because of the lack of studies on countering misinformation in the. Global South, it is tempting to generalize findings from the Global North to ...

Researchers Create Winning Strategy to Combat Vaccine ...

Researchers from three Georgia Tech schools found the most effective way to confront vaccine misinformation on the X platform.

The 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation

Signatories committed to take action in several domains, such as; demonetising the dissemination of disinformation; ensuring the transparency of political ...

The Pandemic Proves We Need A “Superfund” to Clean Up ...

This post is an effort to put forward a specific policy solution — a “superfund for the internet” – for countering misinformation.