Most people say that they are exposed multiple times a week to misinformation. But when you look at what we find from digital data online is that it tends to be much more infrequent than what people are saying. And there's two issues here. One, maybe people are not remembering correctly or not reporting correctly. Or we don't have access to the right amount of data to make accurate estimates.
In the latest episode of Nature hits the books, psychologist Sander van der Linden joins us to discuss his new book Foolproof, which focuses on misinformation and what can be done to prevent people being duped, particularly by the falsehoods found online.
We discuss how misinformation messages are crafted, why they can be hard to shake once someone is exposed, and how Star Wars: Episode 3 helped in the fight against them…
Foolproof, Sander van der Linden, Fourth Estate (2023)
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