Facebook rolled out something close to what David Rand suggested to limit the spread of Covid-related misinformation.

"Participants who anthropomorphized the AI more assigned less proportional credit to the artist."

"...most stuff doesn't get labeled, so that's a major practical limitation of this approach.”

"...if you ask people to stop and think about is this true, most people are actually pretty good at telling...fake news from true news."

...if only a minority is following guidance, citing trends moving in a positive direction or using raw numbers...can help.

“They forget to think about whether it's true, but rather how many likes they'll get."

"Underpinning the question of possible violence is an even broader question: Will Donald Trump voters accept Joe Biden as the president?"

"Our experiment shows that shared partisanship does indeed have a large impact on social tie formation."

Prof. David Rand discusses intuitive vs. deliberative modes of decision making and how they figure into the dissemination of fake news.

Prof. David Rand and his team is conducting a survey in The New York Times on news in social media.