Sander van der Linden: What's the future of misinformation? He says we need a long term way to actually inoculate people. The solution is probably not going to be about the deep fake, he says. But I do think that we can build resilience in kind of the post-truth sort of era.
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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