An international group of scientists from the USA and the UK has proposed a method of psychological protection against unreliable news and manipulation. They called this method “vaccination” to create immunity against misinformation. To work published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
The technique is based on the theory of preliminary disinformation, in which exposure to unreliable data allows you to develop resistance to such attempts at deception in the future. In order for the “vaccine” against fraud to start working, one must analyze a number of examples of manipulation of information.
The team analyzed the results of 42 experiments involving more than 40,000 people. Psychologists concluded that people who were previously exposed to disinformation were better able to detect deception and attempts to manipulate public opinion in media and social media posts. Different working groups achieved similar results, which made it possible to generalize the indicators of their tests.
ancient scientists to solveThat people are less susceptible to disinformation if it is presented in a language that is not unique to them.