misinformation is everywhere in the sense that there is wrong information either according to scientific consensus or fact checks. It's manipulators trying to do people, and you can find that increasingly online. People burn down 5G mass in UK because they're linking conspiracy theories about 5G cell towers to the coronavirus. And so I think, you know, misinformation really is growing at an accelerating rate online which we didn't have before.
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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