Could be significant:

CBS is launching a new show as part of its pivot to streaming. It's called 'CBS News Confirmed.' Devoted to combatting misinformation. 'Mission is to identify and fight the spread of false stories, conspiracy theories and bad facts.' variety.com/2024/tv/news/c…

Ideology impairs the ability reason logically

Political ideology is associated with impaired syllogistic reasoning for political content but not politically irrelevant content. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Liberals fall prey to this impairment just as much as conservatives.

Looking for a good read this weekend? The Integrity Project has several reading rooms - Books, White Papers and Latest News - by leaders in their respective fields. Come visit, no library card required! With Sander van der Linden, many others. tipaz.org

Early into this book and quite liking it: seems to be making good on its claim to provide a diversity of current perspectives and (of special interest to me) informed by critiques Mercier, Altay/Berriche/Acerbi, Williams, etc. have raised in recent years. cambridge.org/core/books/psy…

The Psychology of Misinformation is now out & available!! Join Jon Roozenbeek & myself next month for the launch party at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop Cambridge University Press.

Get ready for a 'truth-shattering expedition' Jay Van Bavel, PhD

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So cool Sander van der Linden ... Such a moment for our Churchill College and Cambridge University

Psychology Professor and author Sander van der Linden joined us remotely last night from Berlin to accept his award for the Goldsmith Book Prize, Trade, for his book 'Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity'

goldsmithawards.org/honoree/foolpr…

🚨WP🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

A stellar cast of experts will guide you, including leading social psychologist Sander van der Linden, whose verdict is: “This fantastic course will help you understand and fight disinformation, an absolutely essential skill to acquire during this global election season.” 👇

New books 1/5
The Psychology of Misinformation
by Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden
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(also check out our upcoming launch event for this! eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…)

UK MPs being taught to understand what is misinformation & disinformation with examples from 1980s print media and 21st century online campaigns 👇🏻 theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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So I did a TikTok on conspiracy theories with Oliver Oxford - which was super fun (he's a great interviewer). Of course, the most liked comment is 'Why does this guy look so much like Paul Rudd'? Well, as a user explains later, I'm a govt clone! 😂👀👁️

tiktok.com/@oliversoxford…

Kate Middleton Online Conspiracy Theories Linked to Russian-Based Disinformation Campaign people.com/kate-middleton…

🚨 Important work by superstar team! 🚨

On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

'...we found robust evidence that accuracy prompts significantly increase the quality of content that is subsequently shared by participants across the…

Very shocked and saddened by this news. Perhaps not everyone knows that Ross had a very keen interest in psychology too. We talked frequently about the application of inoculation to information security. Such a brilliant interdisciplinary colleague. He will be deeply missed.

🚨Out in Psych Sci🚨

Prompting accuracy can increase news sharing quality -but is this true for those on the political right?

Our ADVERSARIAL COLLABORATION finds:
➡️Acc prompts increase sharing quality of Republicans
➡️Some evidence of greater efficacy for those on left v right

🚨 Breaking: Center for Countering Digital Hate has won dismissal on all counts against @ElonMusk's X Corp's outrageous and hypocritical SLAPP suit to silence our research.

This ruling sends a strong message to those who aim at intimidating and silencing independent research.

More from us soon.

Great NBC News piece from Alexander Smith on Princess Kate conspiracy theories. My 2 cents;

I am absolutely delighted to find out #FOOLPROOF has been awarded the #Goldsmith Book Prize 2024 from the Harvard University Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. So grateful 🙏for this honour & look forward to the ceremony with the other brilliant winners!

goldsmithawards.org/ceremony/2024/