408419, Zhou X, Zafarani R (2020) A survey of fake news: fundamental theories, detection methods, and opportunities. A lover of great stories and epic tales, Tom is a fan of old and new-school ideas. This isnt. Since it is impossible to check everything that is being shared on social media, fact-checkers focus on content that has already become viral (usually, with information provided from social media platforms in the form of rankings). Int J Hosp Manag 77:342352, Just MA, Carpenter PA (1980) A theory of reading: from eye fixations to comprehension. On the other hand, the separations in the first group appear at lower heights (meaning, more similarities among these categories). The story found a huge audience in the United States. Chan School of Public Health. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6234430, Akhtar MS, Ekbal A, Cambria E (2020) How intense are you? Six degrees of manipulationimpersonation, conspiracy, emotion, polarization, discrediting, and trollingare used to spread misinformation and disinformation, according to Sander van der Linden, PhD, a professor of social psychology in society at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, and his colleagues. Trend Cogn Sci 7(10):454459, Fowler JH, Christakis NA (2009) Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 9, 162 (2022). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116(16):76767683, de Souza JV, Gomes J, Souza Filho FMde, Oliveira Julio AMde, de Souza JF (2020) A systematic mapping on automatic classification of fake news in social media. Dont they know how contagious this virus is? Phys A: Stat Mech Appl 170177. One group was asked how fast the cars were going when they hit each other, while the other was asked how fast they were going when they smashed into each other. 20042006 These misinformation categories are compared with factual news measuring the cognitive effort needed to process the content (grammar and lexical complexity) and its emotional evocation (sentiment analysis and appeal to morality). The algorithm matches words in the lexicon in each text and adds/subtracts points as it effectively finds positive and negative words in the dictionary that appear in the text. This resulted in 3177 articles. During the 2020 presidential election, Twitter flagged tweets that contained misleading information about election resultsa form of prebunkingand in December, Facebook announced that it would begin removing posts with false claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116(16):76627669, Shearer E (2021) More than eight-in-ten Americans get news from digital devices. Focusing on the evolution of traditional media outlets could shed light on the question whether reliable sources are trying to draw on the mechanisms of virality to help increase their penetration (e.g., reliable news becoming more appealing to emotions, titles becoming more exciting, content easier to read, etc.)? These three factors contribute to making the tackling of both disinformation and misinformation one of the biggest problems in our times. The documentary "Hidden colors" just baffles me with it's ignorance and assumptions. 3Kahneman, D. (2011). ACM Association for Computing Machinery, Taylor L (2020) Covid-19 misinformation sparks threats and violence against doctors in Latin America. Information on how Harvard is structured, explore our long history, and discover our extended community. Cabinet Office, the WHO, and the United Nations, the game has already reached thousands of people. The term fake news describes a range of false When the infodemic struck, van der Linden and Roozenbeek built a new online game, Go Viral!, which aims to prebunk common misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Lexical diversity is defined as a measure of the number of different words used in a text (Beheshti et al., 2020). Pasquetto, I. V., et al.,The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2020, The debunking handbook 2020 8, 2020). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Nielsen F (2011) A new ANEW: evaluation of a word list for sentiment analysis in microblogs. ADS See also: Media Literacy; Media Bias in Canada; Propaganda in Canada; Facebook officials testified that up to 60 million bots spread misinformation on its platform, while a study found that a quarter of preelection tweets linking to news articles shared false or extremely biased information. 4. Correlating causation. In Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on web search and data mining (pp. Psychological studies of both misinformation (also called fake news), which refers to any claims or depictions that are inaccurate, and disinformation, a subset of misinformation intended to mislead, are helping expose the harmful impact of fake newsand offering potential remedies. The 197 websites hosting the 92,112 articles are: In comparison to other datasets, the one used in this paper includes more sources and more articles than any other: Extant research in the human cognition and behavioral sciences can be leveraged to identify misinformation online through quantitative measures. Flesch-Kincaid is used in different scientific fields like pediatrics (DAlessandro et al., 2001), climate change (De Bruin & Granger Morgan, 2019), tourism (Liu & Park, 2015) or social media (Rajadesingan et al., 2015). Here, the algorithm considers clusters A and B and the formula calculates the average of the distances taken over all pairs of individual elements a A and b B. 17), Graham J, Haidt J, Nosek BA (2009) Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. And Cimex. Looking at categories with a negative prominence in their content, I find that hate has the highest negative value (sentiment=6.01, [CI=6.21, 5.82]), followed by fake news (sentiment=3.51, [CI=3.70, 3.32]), conspiracy theories (sentiment=3.41, [CI=3.59, 3.22]) and clickbait (sentiment=3.09, [CI=3.31, 2.87]). However, investing in media literacy is particularly important in developing countries, where there are millions of Internet users with low-literacy rates (Mustaffa et al., 2007; Sun & Nekmat, 2008). PubMed The feasibility of real-time deployment should not be a big problem since this method uses manageable calculations in a reasonable amount of time (less than one second for a 2000 words article). Although there is little research on how moral content contributes to online virality (Rathje et al., 2021), the mechanism is grounded in social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and self-categorization theory (Turner et al., 1987) and lies in the idea that group identities are hyper salient on social media (Brady et al., 2017) because they act as a form of self-conscious identity representation (Kraft et al., 2020; van Dijck, 2013). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Ju Y, Back KJ, Choi Y, Lee JS (2019) Exploring Airbnb service quality attributes and their asymmetric effects on customer satisfaction. 263, 2020). Finally, although we employed widely used dictionaries in the literature, the results are also contingent to the specificities of each dictionary I employed. Both junk science and rumors tend to be significantly more positive than reliable news. Time benefits: Detecting misinformation before it is too late with on-spot interception. 4Lazer, D. M. J., et al. Thinking, fast and slow. With Sabir Bey, Booker T. Coleman, Umar Johnson, Tariq Nasheed. In other words, the results should be interpreted on the aggregated or average effect, and not in the specific source effect. For example, encouraging people to think analytically, in contrast to emotionally, decreases likelihood of liking or sharing fake news (Effron & Raj, 2020). Thought processes more common among those who hold far-right political beliefs, such as paranoid ideation and distrust of authority, also correlate with an increased endorsement of conspiratorial narratives (van Prooijen, J.-W., et al., Social Psychology and Personality Science, Vol. ", Paltering is when a communicator says truthful things and in the process knowingly leads the listener to a false conclusion. Future Gener Comput Syst 117:4758, Hansen LK, Arvidsson A, Nielsen FA, Colleoni E, Etter M (2011) Good friends, bad news-affect and virality in twitter. 10, 2020). (2012). This has implications for previous and future research. And misinformation isnt the only factor in hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines. Its Vis. That process can get things right, but it can also get things wrong, producing rumors that turn out to be false.. (2019). Bus Horiz 63(2):135146, Kincaid JP, Fishburne Jr, RP, Rogers RL, Chissom BS (1975) Derivation of new readability formulas (automated readability index, fog count and flesch reading ease formula) for navy enlisted personnel. and JavaScript. For one, people who use an intuitive reasoning style tend to believe fake news more often than those who rely primarily on analytical reasoning (Journal of Personality, Vol. Google Scholar, Berger JA, Milkman KL (2009) What makes online content viral? spread. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reber, R., & Schwarz, N., Effects of perceptual fluency on judgments of truth. BMJ 370 (pp. Lewandowsky, Schwarz, van der Linden, and others have shown that prebunking can neutralize misinformation on climate change, vaccines, and other issues (Global Challenges, Vol. Moreover, the results must be interpreted in the light of some methodological limitations that I expose in the corresponding section. Comput Hum Behav 65:567575, Kraft PW, Krupnikov Y, Milita K, Ryan JB, Soroka S (2020) Social media and the changing information environment: sentiment differences in read versus recirculated news content. Google Scholar, Chan MpuiS, Jones CR, Hall Jamieson K, Albarracn D (2017) Debunking: a meta-analysis of the psychological efficacy of messages countering misinformation. Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), PolitiFact and Snopes. Much of that is a psychological phenomenon.. For example, emotions can be used as a strategy to convey a particular point of view when the appropriate methods are less likely to yield the desired conclusion (Kunda, 1990). If its false, or very old, or taken out of context, there wont be other sources reporting the same thing. Psychol Rev 87(4):329354, Article A new survey by Harvard researchers shows that trust in leaders and institutions are at a low ebb in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighting the importance of gaining trust as part of the response to the growing Ebola epidemic there. Next, I complement the results with predicted probabilities based on simulations for each category in four scenarios corresponding to the four variables using the previous multinominal logistic regression model. The term "fake news" describes a range of false information that can be separated into three distinct types: misinformation, disinformation and mal-information. For example, posts promoting unvetted claims can be endorsed and shared by friends and family. For example, in my sample, one of the highest values in negative emotions (emotion=32) is the following news from the fake news category reporting about a shooting against two police officers in France: () Her candidacy [referring to Marine Le Pen] has been an uprising against the globalist-orchestrated Islamist invasion of the EU and the associated loss of sovereignty. However, conspiracy theories are non-factual, meaning we are not able to fact-check their veracity. For example, after a man drove a van along a Toronto sidewalk in 2018, killing 10 people and hurting 16, misinformation Since misinformation creators are aware of counter-measure interventions, they may be adapting to them through adversarial machine learning (Huang et al., 2011), that is, changing their structural characteristics to avoid detection in automated systems. Universitat Ramon LlullESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, You can also search for this author in This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by the author. Some contemporary approaches. Science 363(6425):374378, Article Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(3). First differences of the multinominal logit modelSentiment. Participants are asked to check if there is a lack of style guide, a frequent use of caps, or any other hyperbolic word choices. To obtain Hidden Colors 1- The Untold Histroy of People of Colour around the Globe. On the other side, an increase in readability shows 9.96% more probability of being classified as hate speech (CI=[0.087, 0.111]) and an increase of 40.19% of being classified as junk science (CI=[0.390, 0.414]). After calculating the distance matrix, I employed a hierarchical clustering technique using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean. For perplexity, the first differences show that an increase from 91.37 to 215.01 translates into an 8.72% increase in the probabilities of content being classified as factual news (CI=[0.080, 0.095]), an increase in 11.85% for the probability of being clickbait (CI=[0.109, 0.127]), and an increase in 33.75% of being classified as junk science (CI=[0.327, 0.350)]. 3, 2020). Read more. That's not gibberish. 88, No. Finally, the model that is easily understandable in daily language (the explainability challenge), facilitating its adoption by technical and, specially, non-technical audiences. From there, I calculate first differences, which are the difference between the two expected, rather than predicted, values (King et al., 2000). Learning how to separate facts from misinformation or so-called fake news has become a critical modern skill as people Adam Gaudry, PhD, is Mtis and currently an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. The Shorenstein Centers News Sustainability program produces original research on sustainable business models for the digital age, and works closely with legacy and emerging news organizations to put the theories into practice creating a cycle of research, implementation, and learning. Media literacy organizations such as the News Literacy Project (NLP) and First Draft are applying such strategies in an effort to dispel misinformation and disinformation on COVID-19 and other issues. As a novelist and a screenwriter, he enjoys promoting one story or another. Manag Sci 66:11, Pennycook Gordon, Allan J, Nathaniel C, Derek B, Fugelsang KJA (2015) On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. This is aligned with the call for public interest algorithms to identify misinformation and protect consumers (Wheeler, 2017). Soc Netw Anal Mining 7(1):114. As for the sentiment of the content, a one-unit increase in negative sentiment is associated with an increase in the log odds of a content being clickbait \(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},\,{\mathrm{clickbait}}} = - 0.01\), p<0.001), conspiracy theory (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},\,{\mathrm{conspiracy}}} = - 0.02\), p<0.001), fake news (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},{\mathrm{fake}}\,{\mathrm{news}}} = - 0.02\), p<0.001) or hate speech (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},{\mathrm{hate}}} = - 0.03\), p<0.001), indicating that these categories tend to employ a highly negative and sentimental language; while a one-unit increase in the positive sentiment score is associated with an increase in the log odds of a content being junk science (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},{\mathrm{junk}}\,{\mathrm{science}}} = 0.02\), p<0.001) or a rumor (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{sentiment}},\,{\mathrm{rumor}}} = 0.01\), p<0.001). Procedure. In 1439, the invention of the printing press enabled deceivers to spread falsehoods farther and faster.1, 1960s1980s the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, explains: Misinformation: Spreading false information (rumors, insults, and pranks). Media Cult Soc 35(2):199215, Venables W, Ripley B (2002) Modern applied statistics with S (Fourth Edi). Is DC Making A Mistake By Not Connecting Their Superhero Universe? pp. This measure estimates the educational level that is needed to understand a given text. Heidi Larson, author of Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Startand Why They Dont Go Away and founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project, talks about the roots of vaccine misbeliefsand how we can change them. Mining opinions in texts is done by seeking content that captures the effective meaning of sentences in terms of sentiment. Open websites such as Wikipedia, which anyone can edit, should contain sources or links that can be checked. The word 'colors' (or 'colours') refers to the flag or ensign which every ship is obliged to fly at sea. i have a feeling that must be tariq rating his own movie .. as far as enlightening i think you'd be better elevated watching a dung beetle roll his little ball of poo backwards. Misinformation has even spurred violence, for instance when a conspiracy theorist fired a gun inside Washington, D.C.-based pizzeria Comet Ping Pong in 2016. Curr Direc Psychol Sci Vol. For example, rumors split from hate speech, conspiracy theories and fake news at height=6.68. In addition to lexical diversity, the usage of moral language appears to be one of the main determinants of misinformation communication strategies. Health Commun 24(3):219227, Leshner G, Vultee F, Bolls PD, Moore J (2010) When a fear appeal isnt just a fear appeal: the effects of graphic anti-tobacco messages. To investigate the differences between factual news and misinformation, I analyze 92,112 news articles classified into seven categories: clickbait (n=12,955), conspiracy theories (n=15,493), fake news (n=16,158), hate content (n=15,353), junk science (n=16,252), rumors (n=14,158), and factual information (n=1743) (see Methods for a detailed description of the database). Conspiracy theories, including around COVID-19, receive more support from men than women (Cassese, E. C., et al., Politics & Gender, Vol. 3B), they follow the same behavior as the hierarchical clustering. 02:23:48. This issue of the Shorenstein Centers Misinformation Review explores the world of propaganda, from persuasion campaigns to commercial media. It can adopt many different forms like conspiracy theories, fake news, junk science, or rumors among others. The author declares no competing interests. To avoid that, one should first click through to the story being shared. Hidden colors: a documentary using Half truths/misinformation to Extort The black community - YouTube AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy & SafetyHow. However, I also report all the other clustering possibilities as a robustness check. J Retail Consum Serv 53:101739, Kunda Z (1990) The case for motivated reasoning. Secondly, they increase the evidence about structural differences among misinformation types (the breadth challenge), which allows to focus on or differentiate specific categories and create tailored countermeasures for each one. Inform Process Manag 56(5):18491864, Beheshti Z, Nejadansari D, Barati H (2020) The relationship between emotional intelligence, Lexical diversity and the syntactic complexity of EFL Learners written productions. 15. Res Polit 113. Lewandowsky, S., et al., 2020, Coronavirus misinformation: Quantifying sources and themes in the COVID-19 infodemic 16, No. However, most of the existing research does . Following the previous example, the string bla bla bla bla bla has a perplexity of 1 (no surprise because all words are the same and, therefore, predicted with a probability of 1), while the string this is an example of higher entropy has a perplexity of 7 (since there are 7 different words that appear 1 time each, yielding a probability of 1-in-7 to appear). Meanwhile, research is underway to further characterize the spread of misinformation and its effects on behavior. I employ a multinominal logistic regression model with K classes using a neural network with K outputs and the negative conditional log-likelihood (Venables & Ripley, 2002). In Focus is a curated examination of Harvard's research, scholarly work, and community. Navigate away from the story to investigate the site, its mission and its contact info. 359, No. As an educator I HIGHLY recommend 'Hidden Colors' for EVERYONE. Misinformation is a type of fake news, which is false information reported by media outlets or shared by regular people. In Table 3 and Fig. Tattrie, Jon. 110, No. In contrast to previous measures, the technique employed to quantify morality is highly sensitive to text length (with longer texts having higher probabilities of containing moral words), therefore, I calculate the morality measure as moral words per 500 words in each text. an unbelievable amount of blustery hooplaw that is not only factually incorrect but painfully shallow and excruciatingly reaching, whats so sad about . However, this procedure has a problem: the content is fact-checked once it has gone viral. This method allows us to use reliable news as a role model of information and see how misinformation categories diverge from this baseline. Like in sentiment analysis, morality is measured by counting the frequency of moral words in each text. ISSN 2662-9992 (online), The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of cognitive effort and appeal to emotions, humanities and social sciences communications, $${\mathrm{Flesch.Kincaid}}\,{\mathrm{score}}\left( {{\mathrm{FK}}} \right) = 0.39 \ast \left( {\frac{{n_w}}{{n_{st}}}} \right) + 11.8 \ast \frac{{n_{sy}}}{{n_w}} - 15.59$$, $$H = - \mathop {\sum }\limits_x p\left( {{x}} \right){\mathrm{log}}_2\,q\left( x \right)$$, $${\mathrm{Perplexity}}\left( M \right) = \tau ^{ - \mathop {\sum }\limits_x p\left( {{{\mathrm{x}}}} \right)\,{\mathrm{log}}_2\,q\left( x \right)} = 2^H$$, $${Morality}_i\left( M \right) = \frac{{{mor}_i}}{{n_{w,i}}} \ast \frac{{{neg}_i}}{{n_{w,i}}}$$, $$d_{AB} = \sqrt {\mathop {\sum}\nolimits_{i = 1}^n {\left( {e_{Ai} - e_{Bi}} \right)^2} }$$, $$d_{AB} = \frac{{\mathop {\sum }\nolimits_{{{a}} \in {{A}},\,{{b}} \in {{B}}} d\left( {a,b} \right)}}{{\left| A \right| \ast \left| B \right|}}$$, $$W\left( {C_k} \right) = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{x_i \in C_k} \left( {x_i - \mu _k} \right)^2$$, $${\mathrm{tot.withiness}} = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k W\left( {C_k} \right) = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k \mathop {\sum }\limits_{x_i \in C_k} \left( {x_i - \mu _k} \right)^2$$, $${\mathrm{minimize}}\left( {\mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k W\left( {C_k} \right)} \right)$$, $$p_j\left( x \right): = \frac{{{\Bbb P}\left[ {Y = j\left| {X_1} \right. 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