The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Oh so this is why Canvas is down...

Science is good. We should fund it.

Consequences of correcting misinformation for high and low credibility sources www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @brionyswire.bsky.social et al.🙏 "...importance of communicating accurately for maintaining trust..." "...the reputational consequences of inaccuracy are sensitive to framing context."

Just out! How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share this new paper out in JARMAC today, led by the indefatigable @emilyspearing.bsky.social : Reducing the Belief-Boosting Impact of Misleading Graphs With Inoculation doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged? Thread 👇 1/10

How much has it snowed in Boston, you ask? Well, enough that our neighbors made a whale out of snow.

The truth sandwich is baloney! New paper out. We show that the “truth sandwich” correction format (in which false information is bookended by factual information) does not enhance corrections. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Corrections *are* effective and how we measure their impact matters

Very excited to see this out today - led by the fabulous @emilyspearing.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Renée DiResta talking on "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 11.30am EST today. www.networkscienceinstitute.org/talks/renee-...

Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Skyler Johnson talking on "Combating cancer misinformation: impacts, challenges and opportunities" at the Harvard / Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series at 3pm EST today! shorensteincenter.org/new-event/co...

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts, led by the amazing Anastasia Kozyreva. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇 Please share! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted at Northeastern for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (please reshare): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Hi all, I'm hiring a new research assistant, please share with anyone who might be interested - thanks! brionyswire.com/wp-content/u...

Catch me next Wed March 6th at the Harvard/Northeastern Misinformation Speaker Series (live & on zoom) for the public reveal of the results from our large collaborative megastudy testing nine misinformation interventions @dgrand.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social shorensteincenter.org/new-event/mi...

Check out the special issue on Psych of Misinformation that you're in! Most of the articles are published now and they're both short and for a broad audience. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/curr...

🚨New paper🚨 out in the International Journal of Press/Politics w/ Assaf Shamir and @jenny-oser.bsky.social 🎉 Here's what we learned from studying the composition of political content available to 600k+ registered U.S. voters on Twitter during the 2020 election. doi.org/10.1177/1940... 🧵👇

New: Fact-check of 2022 AZ fraud claims reduces false beliefs but no effect on general fraud/election beliefs sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/... (with Carey, Fogarty, Reifler, and great D students) Raises questions about effectiveness of case-by-case corrections at countering broader false claims

just SEVEN DAYS LEFT to apply to work as a postdoc with us on fmri decoding, consciousness, higher order theories, and more! big collaboration with @jorge-morales.bsky.social & Rachel Denison among others. please apply! faculty.sites.uci.edu/cnclab/job-o...