Debunk, dont prebunk, and different psychology classes for social media moderation

If social networks and different platforms are to get a care for on disinformation, it’s no longer enough to understand what it is — you want to know the way folks react to it. Researchers at MIT and Cornell have some shocking on the other hand refined findings which can affect how Twitter and Facebook ought to move about treating…
If social networks and other platforms are to get a handle on disinformation, it’s not enough to know what it is — you have to know how people react to it. Researchers at MIT and Cornell have some surprising but subtle findings that may affect how Twitter and Facebook should go about treating…Original article
Author: Devin Coldewey

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Devin Coldewey has recently written 2 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have failed their task of monitoring and moderating the content that appears on their sites; what’s more, they failed to do so well before they knew it was a problem". (July 29, 2019)
  2. "Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer". (June 4, 2020)
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