Fact-checking only helps if it reaches people before they have made up their minds.
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Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.
Take control and think critically about the information you consume.
Most fact-checking focuses on social media, yet misinformation can also spread quickly through messaging apps like Whatsapp. Personalised push notifications – sent directly to your phone – could help.
Popes wear white to represent Christlike purity and red to symbolise compassion.
Empowering current and future generations to detect and dismiss false and misleading information will be pivotal in developing a democracy resilient to the threat of online misinformation.
The majority of those punished under the laws to combat false information are opposition politicians or journalists.
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Professor of Early Modern Art History, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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PhD Candidate at the News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. Researcher in journalism, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
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Lecturer: Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer & PhD Candidate in Health Psychology, McGill University
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Reader/ Associate professor in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Visiting Researcher & Co-Director Chevening African Media Freedom Fellowship, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Researcher, University of St.Gallen
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston