Notices by Dave Rand (drand@techhub.social)

🚨New WP🚨

Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing!

Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u8anb

@atlas Thanks for your engagement! To clarify, the data we were collecting was on what news domains people on different servers share, and how toxic the language they use is etc; and then how that relates to the formal rules the server posts. But also we would LOVE to talk admins about how they actual think about / do content moderation etc (We have talked to some already, and are def interested in more!)

@natalie Hi all, apologies for this, I didn't realize the bot was being poorly behaved - we've now stopped it. In terms of why we were doing the scraping, we are doing research on how content moderation policies vary across servers, and how this can help inform the Fediverse more broadly about effective approaches to content moderation. You can get more of a sense of the kind of research we do here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2D4zVqkSHB1M9wpXtAe3UzbeE0RPpD_E2UpaPf6Lds/edit?usp=sharing

Sorry again about causing problems for folks! (And thanks to a couple of people for emailing me to let me know about this)

"Understanding and combatting #misinformation across 16 countries on six continents" out today in Nature Human Behavior! There have been a huge number of msinfo-related studies in the past 5 or so years, but almost all of them have been US/Western populations. So here we examined the #psychology of #misinformation, and the effectiveness of various #interventions, across 16 countries (total N=34k).

We find:
➤Consistent #cognitive, #social & #ideological predictors of misinfo belief across countries
➤Interventions (accuracy prompts, digital literacy tips, using crowdsourcing to identify misinfo) are all broadly effective across countries

Give it a read and let me know what you think! https://rdcu.be/dfGtT