How to Address Misinformation—Without Censorship time.com/7282640/how-...

Paper presentation from Fabio Carrella, University of Campina, at the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: Warning people that they are being microtargeted fails to eliminate persuasive advantage m.youtube.com/watch?v=iNY1...

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

Misinformation research often focuses on English due to data availability. That's why we created GERMA, a freely accessible corpus of 230K+ German news articles from fact-checker-classified unreliable sources. It provides large-scale data for misinformation detection, linguistics and psychology. 1/6

How politicians communicate shapes online discourse in ways we might overlook. Our new paper shows that their choice between a fact-based (evidence-driven) and a belief-based (sincerity-driven) honesty creates a "contagion" effect, influencing how users engage and respond. ⬇️(1/8)