misinformation
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Brain power
How best to correct scientific misinformation
Strategies exist to rectify misinformation, provided that obstacles are duly acknowledged and circumvented.
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Artificial intelligence
We’re not very good at telling when text has been written by AI
People cannot detect AI-generated text as their judgment is misguided by intuitive but flawed heuristics.
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Brain power
How we can better detect misinformation
Offering positive incentives to overcome the perverse incentives to share misinformation online.
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Brain power
Online communities undermine best scientific advice
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting communities were already pedaling unofficial, and often bad, information among their members.
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Brain power
Three reasons why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it
Disinformation is a plague infecting all forms of media. But efforts to control it abound, and Wikipedia is a good…
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Artificial intelligence
AI tools are generating convincing misinformation. Engaging with them means being on high alert
AI tools are now generating content that’s difficult to distinguish from reality. Fact-checking is our main defence.
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Artificial intelligence
The Galactica AI model was trained on scientific knowledge – but it spat out alarmingly plausible nonsense
Galactica readily generates toxic and nonsensical content dressed up in the measured and authoritative language of science.
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Brain power
Signalling the credibility of news sources does little to dampen spread of misinformation
Exploring the impact of NewsGuard browser extension “shield” symbols on behavior.
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Brain power
It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation
Search engines often serve up a distorting blend of information and misinformation.
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KM in international development
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) knowledge management resources
FARA has produced and co-produced a range of downloadable knowledge management resources including a series of six policy briefs.
