Carlos Carrasco-Farré
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Carlos Carrasco-Farré
@ccfarre.bsky.social
Sith Lord Professor of Tech, Data Science & AI at Toulouse Business School. Computational Social Science, Social Psychology and Misinformation. Ph.D. from ESADE Business School. Previously at IESE Business School.
I double-checked. No such paper. Just a fabricated citation, right in the area of "fake news detection". So, in a way, I’ve been cited… in an alternate academic universe? Lesson: verify your AI-generated text. Otherwise, you might end up citing papers from the Multiverse of Academia.
March 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Especially these days, easy-to-process, emotional, and highly moral-charged stories can be misleading.

Stay vigilant.
October 22, 2023 at 9:28 AM
And, of course, it is not only about individuals. Media outlets should be responsible in their reporting, avoiding clickbait and hasty publication for the sake of clicks and likes: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
#ResponsibleMedia #FactCheck
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blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 22, 2023 at 9:27 AM
Misinformation tends to be:

- Easier to process (3% easier to read)
- Emotional (10 times more relying on negative sentiment)
- Morally loaded (37% more appealing to morality)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of ...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of cognitive effort and appeal to emotions
www.nature.com
October 22, 2023 at 9:24 AM