A look at "prebunking", or exposing people to low doses of misinformation with explanations to grow "mental antibodies" to disinformation, ahead of US elections (Washington Post) ( www.techmeme.com )

Washington Post:
A look at “prebunking”, or exposing people to low doses of misinformation with explanations to grow “mental antibodies” to disinformation, ahead of US elections  —  Election officials around the world are adopting “prebunking” campaigns, as AI and other threats jeopardize voting.

OppositeOfOxymoron ,

I wonder if you could attract the victims of disinformation/misinformation by using the same methods... "80% of people fail this test - can you figure it out?"

Carrolade ,

Huh. Neat idea.

Here's a somewhat older NPR article on it too:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1132021770/false-information-is-everywhere-pre-bunking-tries-to-head-it-off-early

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

This is interesting, but given people short attention spans on the Internet, I’m concerned that they may only read the misinformation part and skip the part that explains that it’s misinformation.

I’m highly skeptical

captainlezbian ,

I’m skeptical but I also think it could be hugely valuable. Essentially serving as a pro critical thinking campaign.

gregorum ,
@gregorum@lemm.ee avatar

I don’t deny the potential, I’m just concerned about this experiment backfiring.

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