The effectiveness of training interventions aimed at improving critical thinking to counter mis- and disinformation is the focus of this systematic review. While critical thinking is widely recognized as a crucial aspect, the authors state that more evidence is needed to identify which approaches are most effective. Following PRISMA guidelines and a pre-registered protocol, the...
Ontario Provincial Police say a video circulating online that appears to show an individual shooting a gun in Caledon didn’t occur in Canada at all.
A fatal hantavirus cluster has prompted renewed online claims about ivermectin. But the same drug was falsely promoted during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite warnings from public health agencies that evidence did not support its use as a COVID treatment outside clinical trials.
Hashtags such as "fake space" and "fake NASA" have gained traction online since NASA's lunar fly-by sent astronauts farther from Earth.
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Shortly after news of a US-Iran ceasefire, an Iranian group released a new Lego-style video lampooning President Donald Trump and declaring “Iran won,” the latest in a wave of war-themed AI-generated propaganda flooding the internet. Explosive Media, a group of pro-Iran creators that describes itself as independent but is widely suspected of government ties, has […]
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A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.
In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. But here’s an even more impressive one: five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every…
First check out the detail exposed in the following video. Goodwin does not even try to hide the fact he used ChatGPT. He is supposed to be an academic; instead, he behaves like a deranged charlatan. But let’s not rest on ad hominem as much as the desperate-looking weasel deserves it. No, let’s break this […]
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The super spreaders of health misinformation are no longer fringe figures. They now control the public health in the United States.
Health misinformation is a complex problem with no simple solutions. It’s both a symptom of broader societal issues (e.g. attacks on science, lower societal trust) and a cause of misbeliefs, confusion about health topics, and reduced vaccine uptake. Yet,…
President Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr with an explosion in the background
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales on the opposite sides of the Wikipedia logo.
A needle pulls medicine from a vial