Washington Post: A look at “prebunking”, or exposing people to low doses of misinformation with explanations to grow “mental antibodies” to disinformation, ahead of US elections — Election officials around the world are adopting “prebunking” campaigns, as AI and other threats jeopardize voting.
Huh. Neat idea.
Here’s a somewhat older NPR article on it too:
I wonder if you could attract the victims of disinformation/misinformation by using the same methods… “80% of people fail this test - can you figure it out?”
This is interesting, but given people short attention spans on the Internet, I’m concerned that they may only read the misinformation part and skip the part that explains that it’s misinformation.
I’m highly skeptical
I’m skeptical but I also think it could be hugely valuable. Essentially serving as a pro critical thinking campaign.
I don’t deny the potential, I’m just concerned about this experiment backfiring.
