Human Detection of Fake News

Goodreads star ratings can be misleading as measures of "book quality," and research from Hannes Rosenbusch suggests that for many professionally published books, differences between readers often matter more than differences between books. The episode also explores how to model ...  Show more

When you open the newspaper, turn on the nightly news or scroll the Internet, is what you are reading and seeing true? How do you know? What is “fake news” and why does it seem to be everywhere? Dr. Dolores Albarracin explains why fake news is so compelling, and what it takes to ...  Show more

It’s getting easy to create convincing—but false—videos through artificial intelligence. These “deepfakes” can have interesting applications in art and education, but they can also cause great harm—from ruining the reputation of an ex-partner to provoking international conflicts ...  Show more

Why do people share false information? In this episode, our presenters Ginny Smith and Jon Sutton explore the psychology of misinformation. They hear about the factors that make peo ...

La France dénonce les Fake News de "Portal Kombat", la galaxie de sites pilotés par la Russie pour tenter de répandre des fausses nouvelles. Alerte donnée par le ministre des Affaires Etrangères en personne, Stéphane Séjourné. Les autorités  ont repéré des dizaines de sites qui d ...  Show more