TY - JOUR
T1 - Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
AU - Kozyreva, Anastasia
AU - Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp
AU - Herzog, Stefan M.
AU - Ecker, Ullrich K.H.
AU - Lewandowsky, Stephan
AU - Hertwig, Ralph
AU - Ali, Ayesha
AU - Bak-Coleman, Joe
AU - Barzilai, Sarit
AU - Basol, Melisa
AU - Berinsky, Adam J.
AU - Betsch, Cornelia
AU - Cook, John
AU - Fazio, Lisa K.
AU - Geers, Michael
AU - Guess, Andrew M.
AU - Huang, Haifeng
AU - Larreguy, Horacio
AU - Maertens, Rakoen
AU - Panizza, Folco
AU - Pennycook, Gordon
AU - Rand, David G.
AU - Rathje, Steve
AU - Reifler, Jason
AU - Schmid, Philipp
AU - Smith, Mark
AU - Swire-Thompson, Briony
AU - Szewach, Paula
AU - van der Linden, Sander
AU - Wineburg, Sam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Limited 2024.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation. Comprising an up-to-date account of interventions featured in 81 scientific papers from across the globe, the toolbox provides both a conceptual overview of nine main types of interventions, including their target, scope and examples, and a summary of the empirical evidence supporting the interventions, including the methods and experimental paradigms used to test them. The nine types of interventions covered are accuracy prompts, debunking and rebuttals, friction, inoculation, lateral reading and verification strategies, media-literacy tips, social norms, source-credibility labels, and warning and fact-checking labels.
AB - The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation. Comprising an up-to-date account of interventions featured in 81 scientific papers from across the globe, the toolbox provides both a conceptual overview of nine main types of interventions, including their target, scope and examples, and a summary of the empirical evidence supporting the interventions, including the methods and experimental paradigms used to test them. The nine types of interventions covered are accuracy prompts, debunking and rebuttals, friction, inoculation, lateral reading and verification strategies, media-literacy tips, social norms, source-credibility labels, and warning and fact-checking labels.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0
DO - 10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38740990
AN - SCOPUS:85192843191
SN - 2397-3374
VL - 8
SP - 1044
EP - 1052
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
IS - 6
ER -