"If you just tell people to watch out for things like emotional language, they'll disbelieve true things that have emotional language as much as false things that have emotional language." - Gordon Pennycook.
"Encouragingly, we found some synergy between these two approaches, and that means we may be able to develop more effective interventions." - Gordon Pennycook.
The inoculation strategy has already been deployed to millions of users on platforms like YouTube and Facebook, effectively highlighting manipulative techniques in misinformation.
In a series of studies involving nearly 7,300 online participants, the ability to identify true information improved when the inoculation videos were coupled with accuracy prompts.
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