(7) Crucially, the 'nudge' does not depend on the addition of "trust" and "distrust" reactions alone. Our next paper will prove it, and propose an alternative. Stay tuned!🙂

(6) Experimental constraints amount to a coordination game with multiple equilibria (including consensus on inaccurate/unreliable information), 'nudging' participants toward coordination on accurate information by incentivizing them to revise their judgment.

(5) In a nutshell, a group of users in an information bubble who would "trust" the same inaccurate and unreliable posts and "distrust" the same accurate and reliable posts would lack (in the tested model) incentive to revise their judgment and improve their accuracy.

(4) However, our model revealed vulnerabilities in the reward structure that was empirically tested: it does not necessarily reward reliability and accuracy, and it may reward consensus on inaccurate and unreliable information, even without manipulation.

(3) Those strategies support adding "trust" and "distrust" reactions alongside "like" and "dislike," as initially proposed by T. Sharot in 2021 (www.nature.com/articles/d41..., paywalled) with some encouraging empirical support published in 2023 (elifesciences.org/articles/85767).

(2) By 2023, with Patricia Rich (from Bayreuth University), we had developed a game-theoretic model and a computer simulation of online social sharing. These models showed unexpected results and suggested unorthodox strategies against misinformation based on users' mutual expectations.

Are you registered with The Conversation as an author? I'm sure you can pitch them something. The topic is trendy, I doubt they'd pass on it.

It's an excellent paper. Thank you and all the co-authors :D I guess the only thing I wish it had is a popular science version (unless it already has one I'm unaware of).

I love how you prop Ada Lovelace as an antidote to Simon (& Altman, probably, but at least Simon knew what he was talking about).

I've (speed)-read the paper already (courtesy of Patricia) but I'd sit through the video just to hear you, you're one of my favorite presenters :D

Is that interior, though?

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