Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science
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Media Literacy and Misinformation
There's nuance that AI would miss, they're only as good as the information they're fed. Media literacy is the kind of biggest casualty of the internet and this is what perpetuates a lot of misinformation online because people just don't check their facts at all or look to reputable sources. I get so frustrated when I see someone just writing a fact that sounds like it could be good and then in a few clicks like, "Oh no this is total nonsense" We published a paper March 2021 showing how shifting people's attention to accuracy can actually reduce the spread of misinformation which is really nice.
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