PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogyny

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The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

Sources aligned with the Kremlin are impersonating Western media outlets to suggest that European aid to Ukraine weakens Greenland’s protections against Trump’s threats.

Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects

Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible

Information such as age and nationality will generally not constitute contempt of court under proposed laws

Endocrinologists warn taking testosterone unnecessarily can suppress natural hormone production

The word we often use to fight falsehoods might be the very thing keeping us from connecting.

Explore the META BI framework to enhance understanding and collaboration in behavioral interventions, for effective nudging.

The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public health and eroded institutional trust. This study investigates t...

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others

Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk

The online forum has been fined £20,000 by the watchdog for breaching its information requests.

Explore the META BI framework to enhance understanding and collaboration in behavioral interventions, for effective nudging.

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

Americans' trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly is at a new low of 28%.

The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

AI-powered influence operations can now be executed end-to-end on commodity hardware. We show that small language models produce coherent, persona-driven political messaging and can be evaluated autom...

The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity, necessitating immediate action to combat its consequences. Although there is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that climate change is ....

As language models (LMs) continue to develop, concerns over foreign misinformation through models developed in authoritarian countries have emerged. Do LMs favor their home countries? This study audit...

As data reveals anti-migrant hate on X is spiking, an investigation by The i Paper shows how a new account on the platform is pushed far-right content from the start

Issue 178: Research from our lab investigates if reading non-fiction books can make us more prosocial and less polarized.

Psychology and behavioural science play a key role in the development, testing, and implementation of interventions aimed at addressing societal chall…

Is an image of British Union Jack flags crowding the Mall in London during a popular uprising of patriots in...

Solutions to support disease self-management and health-related behavior changes require a deep understanding of patient experiences, needs, and challenges across the care journey. Journey mapping (JM...

Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein published a book in which they advocated a novel approach to public policy based on the notion of a “nudge.” Rough....

Psychology and behavioural science play a key role in the development, testing, and implementation of interventions aimed at addressing societal chall…

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

Background Testing mechanisms of action (MoAs) hypothesized to drive behaviour change improves intervention efficacy and allows theoretical propositions to be evaluated, enabling evidence accumulati...

Scientific Reports - Psychological inoculation improves resilience to and reduces willingness to share vaccine misinformation

Are large language models (LLMs) biased in favor of communications produced by LLMs, leading to possible antihuman discrimination? Using a classica...

Report of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.

Moving from nudging to boosting: empowering behaviour change to address global challenges

Health authorities have labeled health misinformation a major global health threat and academic scholars consider exposure to health misinformation a barrier to an individual’s informed decision-ma...

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Here, we review the psychology of information spread, or the psychology of ‘virality’.…

Pro-democracy campaigners suggest ‘pre-buttal’ is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods