#informationdissemination — Public Fediverse posts

The Conversation: 41% of surveyed Australian teens now get their news from AI: new research. “Since 2017, we have been tracking young people’s media engagement, to understand how they get their news. This time, we found some young people are bypassing traditional outlets, reducing their use of social media sources and getting their news from artificial intelligence (AI) summaries using […]

NPR: We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well. “Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. But an experiment NPR conducted with NewsGuard, a company that […]

Arkansas Times: Despite debunkings, misinformation about Little Rock’s ‘New Africa’ persists. “Misleading social media posts about a Little Rock housing development established by a Muslim organization have been spreading online since April, fomenting Islamophobia among gullible Facebook boomers and Republican state legislators. We talked to the people behind the project to see what’s […]

The Conversation: Meta‑backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring. “A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academic researchers who studied the 2020 United States election. It was run from inside the machine – on the live feeds of […]

Poynter: Fact-checking has to go where misinformation actually spreads. “In this environment, fact-checking remains indispensable, but its relevance can no longer be measured solely by the publication of articles. If it wants to continue to matter, fact-checking must stop imagining itself only as an editorial product and begin acting as a form of civic infrastructure. This shift begins with […]

Public Technology: Academics create network to connect officials with research experts. “Launching on 1 February, the Evidence Exchange aims to enable more universities and research organisations to offer ‘Policy to Research’ opportunities for civil and public servants. A consortium led by the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge is developing the project alongside […]