People who repeatedly encounter a fake news item may feel less and less unethical about sharing it on social media, even when they don't believe the information, research indicates. 24, No. A boat containing 14 bodies appeared in the Caribbean. There is also a startling partisan divide in public assessments. PDF Journalism, 'Fake News' & Disinformation - Unesco It seemed so realistic to some that a North Carolina man named Edgar Welch drove to the capital city with an assault weapon to personally search for the abused kids. Reinhard Handler and Raul Conill, Open Data, Crowdsouring and Game Mechanics: A Case Study on Civic Participation in the Digital Age,. Psychologists have ramped up efforts to address misinformation, building on years of laboratory and field tests on combating rumors. Its another to believe it. From loose tigers to voter fraud, news outlets and social media have contributed to the explosive growth of fake news stories and false information in recent years. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland. Kelly Born, The Future of Truth: Can Philanthropy Help Mitigate Misinformation?, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, June 8, 2017. WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST Find a news story that seems like "fake news" to you, as defined in the lesson. In response, psychologists accelerated their research on the spread of online misinformation and how to address it.4, 2018Present Democracies that place undue limits on speech risk legitimizing authoritarian leaders and their efforts to crackdown basic human rights. Through partnerships with the U.K. Another way to address misinformation is to encourage people to reflect on the veracity of claims they encounter. 6. His research examines belief systems pools of interconnected beliefs that are likely to occur together within certain populations. 5, 2019). Psychological research backs several methods of countering misinformation. In general, young people are most likely to get their news through online sources, relying heavily on mobile devices for their communications. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology General in June of 2018, tested the headline BLM Thug Protests President Trump with Selfie Accidentally Shoots Himself In The Face on both Clinton and Trump supporters, and found that in both groups, a single prior exposure to the headline increased accuracy judgments. But such strategies may fail if users feel more comfortable sharing misinformation they know is fake when they have seen it before. 3.) In addition, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has demonstrated important trends in news consumption. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. They found that the participants rated headlines they had seen more than once as less unethical to publish than headlines they saw for the first time. The Guardian, for example, was able to attract 20,000 readers to review 170,000 documents in the first 80 hours.[38] These individuals helped the newspaper to assess which documents were most problematic and therefore worthy of further investigation and ultimately news coverage. Brendan Nyhan, Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked,, Kelly Born, The Future of Truth: Can Philanthropy Help Mitigate Misinformation?, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, June 8, 2017 and Ananya Bhattacharya, Heres a Handy Cheat Sheet of False and Misleading News Sites,, Maria Haigh, Thomas Haigh, and Nadine Kozak, Stopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda,.