🚨 New paper 🚨

Sexually explicit deepfakes 🤖 hurt politicians on almost all fronts...

This is the case ***even*** when people realized the image wasn't real 🤯, and effects are stronger for male 👨 than female 👩 candidates

Link to preprint: tinyurl.com/pnnkhfks

What about debriefings in Misinformation Research?

✅ Only specific debriefings reduce belief in false info
⚠️ Both slightly reduce belief in true info
🧠 Only specific boosts perceived learning
🟢 Only general reduces manipulation & frustration
🔍 Both increase transparency

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨New paper out in @pnas.org with @fgilardi.bsky.social !

Existential AI risks do **not** distract from immediate harms. In our study (n = 10,800), people consistently prioritize current threats - bias, misinformation, job loss - over sci-fi doom!

💥👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We conclude that media literacy tips should aim to both induce a healthy dose of skepticism in misinformation while promoting trust in reliable information too!

We tested whether these 👇 three types of tips were effective at improving discernment and trust. All of them improved discernment, but only trust-inducing tips increased trust in traditional media 🗞️

🥳 New publication in Communications Psychology!

As misinfo is rare and more news is reliable, do media literacy tips boosting trust in true news work just as well as ones promoting skepticism of false news? Yes! And as a bonus, they also boost trust in the media! 🗞️

Full paper 👉 shorturl.at/d8CNp

📣 New paper with @klueserthan!

The @nytimes wrote an article (🔗 below) about a secretive industry hiring Social Media Influencers (SMI) to seed false narratives. But to what extent do SMIs engage with misinfo? We went to find out!

👉 Pre-print:...

Hope to see you there!

Just out in @NatureHumBehav 🥳

Do interventions against #misinformation help, or do they come with undesired effects?

Both! Our findings suggest current strategies increase skepticism in otherwise trusted pieces of information

Link to full paper 👉 https://rdcu.be/dKmXg

📢 Meet TOD: a new mock social media platform designed to facilitate real-time ('live') dynamic participant interactions 🗨️! TOD also features other live elements like pop-ups and message-level interventions

With the wonderful Jonathan Klüser

👉pre:print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Frequency of news media covering conspiracy theories (project I am working on with @maelkubli.bsky.social )

The presence of penalties (i.e., losing 💰💰💰) for posting borderline content (e.g., polarizing or false claims) diminishes but does not eliminate this effect [3/X]

Just arrived in Glasgow for #EPSA2023! If you’re in town, hit me up or if you are interested in whether social media influencers are spreading #misinformation, join this great panel and I’ll tell you all about it (Friday, 15h10)! 👇

And hope to see y’all soon at the reception!🍹

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Anybody else rereading (some of) their emails as if it was a work of art? 🫠

For the early birds among us, on Saturday (08:00 - 09:30) I will be presenting joint work together with @klueserthan and @nahema_marchal about our newly developed experimental social media tool: TOD 👇

It looks like @overleaf is confused about my whereabouts 🧐 (I am currently in Munich, Germany)

Considering how my last name is often pronounced in English-speaking environments, this might not be such a bad idea #LinkedIn