Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

May 12, 2024 | nature.com | Anastasia Kozyreva |Philipp Lorenz-Spreen |Stefan M. Herzog |Stephan Lewandowsky |Ralph Hertwig |Joe Bak-Coleman | +17 more

AbstractThe spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation.

Feb 16, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

: When Twitter announced on 2 February that the social media platform would end free access to its application programming interface (API) in a week, meaning tomorrow, a clock began ticking for Jean-Philippe Cointet.“A lot of people are worried about what this means for their research on political campaigning, disinformation, and other topics,” says Michael Zimmer, a social media researcher from Marquette University.Because of this, the platform has become the equivalent of a model organism...