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Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents - Nature Human Behaviour(www.nature.com)

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Across 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sharing and how wisdom of crowds can identify false claims cross-culturally.

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They author provided a PDF token to the paper, but it wouldn’t work in the top link.

Here’s the author link, if it works.

If that doesn’t work, here’s his toot: https://mastodon.social/@Drand@techhub.social/110628591934679821

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So…all of the continents minus Antarctica?

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Well, I heard a talk from Antarctica recently. There aren’t a ton of people there, but they seem to be opposed to misinformation, especially on climate, as far as I could tell.

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