Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. It all is demonstrably getting worse and worse, with each ...
Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people’s ability ...
As a psychologist researching misinformation, I focus on reducing its influence. Essentially, my goal is to put myself out of a job. Recent developments indicate that I haven’t been doing a very good ...
The roots of American anti-vaccination ideology go way back to 1721, when a smallpox epidemic threatened Boston. Cotton Mather, the Hub’s leading minister, had learned about inoculation — infecting ...
Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge ...
Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for false claims about voting irregularities. But misinformation rarely gets severely punished, and it remains an enormous problem in ...
Smallpox inoculation (variolation) was widely reported in sub-Sahara Africa before, during, and after the colonial era. The infective smallpox materials and techniques used, as well as the anatomical ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can figurative inoculations ward off the scourge of political deepfakes? Canonmark/iStock via Getty Images Informing people about ...