University of Cambridge + Google: “Social media experiment reveals potential to 'inoculate' millions of users against misinformation”

Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to “inoculate” people against harmful content on social media when deployed in YouTube’s advert slot, according to a major online experiment led by the University of Cambridge. 

Working with Jigsaw, a unit within Google dedicated to tackling threats to open societies, a team of psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol created 90-second clips designed to familiarise users with manipulation techniques such as scapegoating and deliberate incoherence.

… So the lying manipulators are telling us not to blame a single group for a complicated problem because that would mean we’re being manipulated... 1:29 But isn’t that exactly what *they* were doing when they said it was the pandemic of the unvaccinated, that we were killing grandma and fired us from our jobs? lol wow

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