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Misinformation and Disinformation: Fact Checking

Learn to fact check and identify fake news.

Peer-Reviewed Literature for Prebunking & Debunking Misinformation - Selective LIst

Basol, M., Roozenbeek, J., Berriche, M., Uenal, F., McClanahan, W. P., & Linden, S. V. D. (2021). Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation. Big Data & Society, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211013868

Batailler, C., Brannon, S. M., Teas, P. E., & Gawronski, B. (2022). A signal detection approach to understanding the identification of fake news. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(1), 78–98. https://doi-org /10.1177/1745691620986135

Chan, M. S., Jones, C. R., Jamieson, K. H., & Albarracín, D. (2017). Debunking: A Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Efficacy of Messages Countering Misinformation. Psychological Science (0956-7976), 28(11), 1531–1546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617714579

Lewandowsky, S., & van der Linden, S. (2021). Countering misinformation and fake news through inoculation and prebunking, European Review of Social Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2021.1876983

Maertens, R., Roozenbeek, J., Basol, M., & van der Linden, S. (2021). Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000315

Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2022). A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation. British Journal of Psychology, 113(3), 591–607. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12551

Tian, Y., & Ding, X. (2019). Rumor spreading model with considering debunking behavior in emergencies.  Applied Mathematics & Computation, 363, N.PAG.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.124599