Interventions to counter misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and applications to the Global South.
Curr Opin Psychol
; 55: 101732, 2024 Feb.
Article
in En
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| ID: mdl-38070207
ABSTRACT
We synthesize evidence from 176 experimental estimates of 11 interventions intended to combat misinformation in the Global North and Global South, which we classify as informational, educational, sociopsychological, or institutional. Among these, we find the most consistent positive evidence for two informational interventions in both Global North and Global South contexts inoculation/prebunking and debunking. In a complementary survey of 138 misinformation scholars and practitioners, we find that experts tend to be most optimistic about interventions that have been least widely studied or that have been shown to be mostly ineffective. We provide a searchable database of misinformation randomized controlled trials and suggest avenues for future research to close the gap between expert opinion and academic research.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Communication
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Curr Opin Psychol
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos