How to detect, resist and counter the flood of fake news

Science News, a must for science junkies, has a few interesting articles on fake news and misinformation that help ID the methods and understand countermeasures.

How to detect, resist and counter the flood of fake news: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fake-news-misinformation-covid-vaccines-conspiracy

A few simple tricks make fake news stories stick in the brain: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/misinformation-fake-news-stories-social-media-brain

We’ll talk about some of this in a future webinar.