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@ebbot 2/2 --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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The whole basis of successful propaganda is to have an objective and then to endeavor to arrive at it through an exact knowledge of the public and modifying circumstances to manipulate and sway that public. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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If a politician is a real leader he will be able, by the skillful use of propaganda, to lead the people, instead of following the people by means of the clumsy instrument of trial and error. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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MIT Technology Review: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers. “In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number. And in April, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington was messing around on Gemini and got it to cough up her colleague’s personal […]
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@ebbot 2/2 of the President a heroic symbol of that power, that is not the fault of propaganda but lies in the very nature of the office and its relation to the people. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Interesting #podcast on how science communication is done at #EFSA. How do they take #misinformation off the menu? 🍝
#FoodSafety #SciComm
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Interesting #podcast on how science communication is done at #EFSA. How do they take #misinformation off the menu? 🍝
#FoodSafety #SciComm
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Interesting #podcast on how science communication is done at #EFSA. How do they take #misinformation off the menu? 🍝
#FoodSafety #SciComm
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Interesting #podcast on how science communication is done at #EFSA. How do they take #misinformation off the menu? 🍝
#FoodSafety #SciComm
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From ‘staged’ to Israel: Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant online.
Misinformation about hantavirus has run rampant on social media, with online users reviving viral COVID-19 theories to spread fake news about the outbreak.
#Hantavirus #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Spain #WHO #SocialMedia
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From ‘staged’ to Israel: Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant online.
Misinformation about hantavirus has run rampant on social media, with online users reviving viral COVID-19 theories to spread fake news about the outbreak.
#Hantavirus #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Spain #WHO #SocialMedia
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From ‘staged’ to Israel: Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant online.
Misinformation about hantavirus has run rampant on social media, with online users reviving viral COVID-19 theories to spread fake news about the outbreak.
#Hantavirus #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Spain #WHO #SocialMedia
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From ‘staged’ to Israel: Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant online.
Misinformation about hantavirus has run rampant on social media, with online users reviving viral COVID-19 theories to spread fake news about the outbreak.
#Hantavirus #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Spain #WHO #SocialMedia
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From ‘staged’ to Israel: Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant online.
Misinformation about hantavirus has run rampant on social media, with online users reviving viral COVID-19 theories to spread fake news about the outbreak.
#Hantavirus #ConspiracyTheories #Misinformation #Spain #WHO #SocialMedia
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But even supposing that a certain propaganda is untrue or dishonest, we cannot on that account reject the methods of propaganda as such. For propaganda in some form will always be used where leaders need to appeal to their constituencies. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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@ebbot 2/2 fertile ground for the leader and the idea to fall on. But the leader also has to have some vital seed to sow. To use another figure, a mutual need has to exist before either can become positively effective. Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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It will be objected, of course, that propaganda will tend to defeat itself as its mechanism becomes obvious to the public. My opinion is that it will not. The only propaganda which will ever tend to weaken itself as the world becomes more sophisticated and intelligent, is propaganda that is untrue or unsocial. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/483412/ EU trumpets its reliability on global health as US slashes foreign aid – POLITICO ##Disinformation #AidAndDevelopment #Diagnostics #Éire #EU27 #GlobalHealth #Health #HealthCare #HealthSystems #Healthcare #IE #InfectiousDiseases #Ireland #JozefSíkela #misinformation #prevention #PublicHealth #resilience #SupplyChains #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #Vaccines
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The political leader must be a creator of circumstances, not only a creature of mechanical process of stereotyping and rubber stamping. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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“I think a lot of the ads are looking to treat ‘desperate men’ who are looking for anything to try to improve relationships or self-esteem or sexual function,” Campbell said.”
#Canada #ED #MensHealth #ReproSci #Misinformation
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/erectile-dysfunction-ads-young-men-9.7193106 -
The newspaperman looks to him for news. And by his power of giving or withholding information the politician can often effectively censor political news. But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/26088/ Trump shares fake quotes, falsely accuses Obama of treason in late-night rant • FRANCE 24 English #'fakeNews' #2016Election #2020Election #ArtificialIntelligence #BarackObama #ConspiracyTheories #DonaldTrump #espionage #FoxNews #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #HillaryClinton #misinformation #NewYorkTimes #SocialMedia #treason #TruthSocial #VoterFraud
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The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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🚨Ofcom is investigating GB 'News' for its outrageous Trump interview, at last!😤 @Ofcom must enforce its own rules & hold them to account!🤬 Add your name to the open letter now!👇 #Misinformation must be held to #Accountability!🤬 #MediaReform
#Politics #Justice
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The Daily — Study: Shifting perceptions of misinformation in Canada: Trends in exposure, detection and trust, 2025 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260513/dq260513a-eng.htm
Link to the full report in the body and below the summary.
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Good government can be sold to a community just as any other commodity can be sold. I often wonder whether the politicians of the future, who are responsible for maintaining the prestige and effectiveness of their party, will not endeavor to train politicians who are at the same time propagandists. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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EU trumpets its reliability on global health as US slashes foreign aid – POLITICO
The strategy also condemns the “instrumentalization” of health and says closing “the emerging gaps in global health resil…
#Europe #EU #Aidanddevelopment #diagnostics #disinformation #EU27 #EuropeanUnion #globalhealth #Healthsystems #InfectiousDiseases #JozefSíkela #Misinformation #Prevention #PublicHealth #Resilience #Supplychains #UnitedStates #UrsulavonderLeyen #Vaccines
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The Register: Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can’t handle long-running tasks. “Companies exploring automated workflows would be well advised to keep their AI agents on a short leash. Microsoft researchers have found that even the priciest frontier models introduce errors in long workflows, the very thing for which AI software has been pitched.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/the-register-microsoft-researchers-find-ai-models-and-agents-cant-handle-long-running-tasks/ -
Poynter: AI-enhanced video from the White House Correspondents’ dinner spread confusion online. “Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artificial intelligence to review the video caused more confusion, not less.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/poynter-ai-enhanced-video-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-spread-confusion-online/ -
Poynter: AI-enhanced video from the White House Correspondents’ dinner spread confusion online. “Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artificial intelligence to review the video caused more confusion, not less.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/poynter-ai-enhanced-video-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-spread-confusion-online/ -
"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"
Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back
#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War
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@ebbot 2/2 --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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@adammockler shared the video below.
On the upside this racist will be dead soon.
#karen #slavery #whitehistory #misinformation #blackmastodon
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@ebbot 2/2 the candidate. Not personality, but the ability of the candidate to carry out the party%27s program adequately, and the program itself should be emphasized in a sound campaign plan. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Political organizer from separatist group not co-operating with voter list investigation: Elections Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/political-organizer-from-separatist-group-not-co-operating-with-voter-list-investigation-elections-alberta-9.7196927 - CBC by Janet French -#DavidParker has been fined by #ElectionsAlberta he should be punished to full extent of the law if found guilty of releasing the personal information of 3 million #Albertans
Remember check your facts. Don't be fooled by #misinformation #Canada #canadaisAlberta #albertaisCanada #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Political organizer from separatist group not co-operating with voter list investigation: Elections Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/political-organizer-from-separatist-group-not-co-operating-with-voter-list-investigation-elections-alberta-9.7196927 - CBC by Janet French -#DavidParker has been fined by #ElectionsAlberta he should be punished to full extent of the law if found guilty of releasing the personal information of 3 million #Albertans
Remember check your facts. Don't be fooled by #misinformation #Canada #canadaisAlberta #albertaisCanada #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Political organizer from separatist group not co-operating with voter list investigation: Elections Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/political-organizer-from-separatist-group-not-co-operating-with-voter-list-investigation-elections-alberta-9.7196927 - CBC by Janet French -#DavidParker has been fined by #ElectionsAlberta he should be punished to full extent of the law if found guilty of releasing the personal information of 3 million #Albertans
Remember check your facts. Don't be fooled by #misinformation #Canada #canadaisAlberta #albertaisCanada #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Political organizer from separatist group not co-operating with voter list investigation: Elections Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/political-organizer-from-separatist-group-not-co-operating-with-voter-list-investigation-elections-alberta-9.7196927 - CBC by Janet French -#DavidParker has been fined by #ElectionsAlberta he should be punished to full extent of the law if found guilty of releasing the personal information of 3 million #Albertans
Remember check your facts. Don't be fooled by #misinformation #Canada #canadaisAlberta #albertaisCanada #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Political organizer from separatist group not co-operating with voter list investigation: Elections Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/political-organizer-from-separatist-group-not-co-operating-with-voter-list-investigation-elections-alberta-9.7196927 - CBC by Janet French -#DavidParker has been fined by #ElectionsAlberta he should be punished to full extent of the law if found guilty of releasing the personal information of 3 million #Albertans
Remember check your facts. Don't be fooled by #misinformation #Canada #canadaisAlberta #albertaisCanada #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #abpoli
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DATE: May 13, 2026 at 08:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Your eyes reveal how strongly you believe fake news before you even make a choice
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our preexisting beliefs deeply influence how we learn new information in our daily lives. By tracking eye movements and decision-making during a simulated news evaluation game, scientists found that people readily learn from rewards that match their existing views but struggle to adapt when rewards challenge their preconceived notions.
These findings provide evidence for the cognitive pathways that allow misinformation to persist in the modern digital landscape. This dynamic explains why simply presenting factual corrections often fails to change minds.
People increasingly rely on social media platforms for their daily news consumption, where automated algorithms tend to filter content to match users’ existing preferences. This digital environment provides a fertile ground for disinformation to spread rapidly across large populations, raising the question of why individuals continue to believe false content even when objective fact-checking is readily available.
“I began seriously considering this line of research in 2021, after witnessing firsthand the damage misinformation caused during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in relation to the vaccination campaign,” said study author Stefano Lasaponara, an associate professor in the department of psychology at Sapienza University of Rome. “That experience led me to wonder to what extent fake news might affect not only what people believe, but also how they learn from feedback and experience.”
Lasaponara and his colleagues sought to understand how a person’s preexisting judgments and internal confidence interact with the way they learn from external feedback. They designed the study to test whether our tendency to favor belief-consistent information might be rooted in basic, everyday learning mechanisms. By examining these fundamental learning processes, the authors hoped to uncover why people find it so difficult to update their opinions when faced with misleading news stories.
To explore these questions, the scientists recruited a final sample of 28 healthy young adults, aged between 18 and 36, to participate in a detailed three-part experiment. In the first phase, participants viewed a set of 324 news headlines that had recently circulated on popular social media platforms. Half of these selected headlines contained real news events, and the other half contained entirely false information. Participants had to read each headline on a computer screen and judge whether it was true or fake.
They also wagered a virtual amount of money, ranging from zero to 99 cents, on their provided answer. This financial bet served as a measurable indicator of their internal confidence regarding each specific news item. Based on these answers, the scientists grouped the headlines into four personalized categories for each individual participant. These customized categories included news judged as true with high confidence, true with low confidence, fake with high confidence, and fake with low confidence.
During this phase, the researchers used specialized eye-tracking glasses to measure the participants’ pupil dilation as they read. Pupil dilation is an involuntary physical response that indicates mental effort, focused attention, and physiological arousal. Measuring this subtle response allowed the team to track brain engagement in real time without interrupting the participants.
In the second phase, the researchers tested how well participants could learn new rules based on their previous judgments. Participants played a computer game where they had to choose between pairs of the headlines they had just rated in the first phase. The goal was to select the specific headline that would win them a 20-cent virtual monetary reward. Unknown to the participants, the rewards were not randomly assigned throughout the game.
In different rounds of the game, the 83 percent chance of winning a reward was tied to specific categories established during the initial evaluation. For example, in one round, picking headlines the participant had previously judged as true provided the reward. In another round, picking headlines judged as fake gave the reward. Other rounds rewarded choices based on high or low confidence, and one single round gave rewards entirely at random to serve as a baseline comparison.
The third and final phase tested whether the learning game had changed the participants’ minds regarding the news items. The scientists showed the participants the original headlines again, along with their initial true or false judgments and their associated confidence wagers. Participants were given the option to either confirm their original judgment or change their mind completely. If their final answer matched the actual real or fake status of the news, they kept their wagered money as a final payout.
The outcomes of the learning phase showed that participants learned very differently depending on the hidden rules of the computer game. When the game rewarded participants for choosing headlines they already believed to be true, they learned the winning strategy quickly and earned high scores. On the other hand, performance dropped when the game rewarded them for picking headlines they believed were fake. Participants also struggled to figure out the game’s hidden rules when rewards were tied to their confidence levels rather than their beliefs about truth.
“One important takeaway is that our prior beliefs can begin shaping our decisions even before we explicitly express a judgment,” Lasaponara said. “In our study, these pre-existing convictions were strong enough to influence learning itself. More broadly, this suggests that we should approach new information as critically and as openly as possible, trying, when we can, to evaluate it without immediately filtering it through our preconceptions.”
To understand the underlying mental strategies at play, the scientists used computational modeling, which involves creating mathematical simulations of human decision-making processes. The models revealed that when the rewards matched a participant’s belief in the truth, they used broad, generalized rules to make their choices.
When the rewards no longer matched their sense of truth, the participants abandoned these broad generalization strategies. Instead, they reverted to simply reacting to positive and negative feedback on a trial by trial basis, which proved to be a much less effective way to navigate the game.
The eye-tracking data provided physical evidence that our beliefs engage our nervous systems before we even make a conscious choice. In the initial phase, participants’ pupils dilated more when they were looking at headlines they would later judge with high confidence. This noticeable dilation suggests that strong subjective beliefs trigger an early physical arousal response within the body. During the learning phase, pupils dilated when participants faced a mental conflict, such as having to choose between a strongly held belief and a competing reward signal.
“I expected to find pupillary effects related to the moment of decision itself, but I did not expect to observe them at an earlier stage, during the formation of a belief-consistent choice tendency,” Lasaponara noted. “That was particularly interesting because it suggests that the influence of prior beliefs may begin unfolding before an overt response is made.”
When participants received feedback that went against their established beliefs, their pupils also widened, indicating cognitive surprise and an increased mental load. In the final feedback phase, participants showed a strong tendency to stick to their original opinions about the headlines. They rarely changed their minds, especially if they had placed a high confidence wager during the very first phase of the experiment.
Interestingly, high confidence made people resistant to changing their minds regardless of whether the headline was actually true or false in reality. Participants were slightly more willing to update their beliefs if they had initially expressed low confidence in their judgment. While the study provides detailed evidence on how subjective beliefs shape learning, there are potential misinterpretations and limitations to keep in mind.
Because the study required participants to experience all the different reward rules back to back, the learned rules from one round might have affected how they behaved in the next round. “An important caveat is that this study does not yet allow us to make strong claims about correcting misinformation, or about when and how people truly change their minds after learning,” Lasaponara explained. “Our results show that prior beliefs can bias reinforcement learning, but they do not yet tell us how to reliably undo that bias. This is something we are currently addressing in follow-up work.”
The experiment also relied exclusively on political and social news headlines, meaning these learning patterns might look different if the topics were neutral or completely unrelated to current events. Future research could expand on these physiological findings by using different types of information to see if this learning behavior applies to other areas of human life.
“Our broader goal is not only to better understand why people believe fake news, but also to identify the conditions under which misinformation becomes less effective,” Lasaponara added. “In follow-up studies, we are investigating whether different reinforcement structures can lead to varying degrees of belief updating and how computational models can help explain when people remain resistant to correction and when they become more flexible.”
Scientists could also design experiments that explicitly present participants with direct evidence contradicting their beliefs, rather than just changing a computer game’s reward rules. This alternative approach would help map out the exact conditions that might finally encourage people to update their most stubborn opinions.
“The title is also a small nod to Metallica, whom I am a big fan of,” Lasaponara added. “More importantly, this work would not have been possible without my co-authors, especially Valentina Piga and Silvana Lozito, whose contributions were fundamental to the project.”
The study, “Eye of the beholder: Pupillary response reflects how subjective prior beliefs shape reinforcement learning with fake news,” was authored by Silvana Lozito, Valentina Piga, Sara Lo Presti, Angelica Scuderi, Fabrizio Doricchi, Massimo Silvetti, and Stefano Lasaponara.
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@ebbot 2/2 public has lost faith in campaign promotion work. It does not say that politicians are dishonorable, but it does say that campaign pledges are written on the sand. Here then is one fact of public opinion of which the party that wishes to be successful might well take cognizance. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Politics was the first big business in America. Therefore there is a good deal of irony in the fact that business has learned everything that politics has to teach, but that politics has failed to learn very much from business methods of mass distribution of ideas and products. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Political campaigns today are all sideshows, all honors, all bombast, glitter, and speeches. These are for the most part unrelated to the main business of studying the public scientifically, of supplying the public with party, candidate, platform, and performance, and selling the public these ideas and products. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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Whether in the problem of getting elected to office or in the problem of interpreting and popularizing new issues, or in the problem of making the day-to-day administration of public affairs a vital part of the community life, the use of propaganda, carefully adjusted to the mentality of the masses, is an essential adjunct of political life. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine
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@ebbot 2/2 But, given our present political conditions under which every office seeker must cater to the vote of the masses, the only means by which the born leader can lead is the expert use of propaganda. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #propaganda #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #uniparty #EconomicHappinessMachine