Fact-checking COVID-19 posts isn't working. There's a better way.
“It's not necessarily that users don't care about accuracy. But instead, it's that the social media context just distracts them … "
“It's not necessarily that users don't care about accuracy. But instead, it's that the social media context just distracts them … "
Poor "truth discernment" (i.e., the ability to tell fake news from real stories) is driven primarily by a lack of careful reasoning.
<p>"By having the AI model underlying the chatbot constantly trawling the web for the latest misleading claims and updating chatbot scenarios regularly, we can help clinicians recognize and respond to the kinds of misinformation circulating now," wrote professor <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/fac...
<p>A recent <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5310089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> by professor <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/roberto-rigobon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roberto Rigobon</a>, <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/staf...