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New episode — an interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy theories via back-and-forth chat, no matter how far down the rabbit hole a person may be: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you… (try it at debunkbot.com)

5 biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers science.org/content/articl… 1) Defining it 2) Everything is political 3) Harms hard to pin down 4) Companies own the data 5) The problem is global I would add (related to #3), what's the direction of causation? Do people use

Great article from Kai Kupferschmidt about the five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers highlighting some of our recent work! Agree with pretty much all these. science.org/content/articl…

So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces. Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come): science.org/content/articl…

An interview with the scientists who created Debunkbot, an AI/LLM that reliably reduces belief in conspiracy theories via back-and-forth chat: youarenotsosmart.com/2024/10/29/yan… ( featuring Tom Costello - David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social - Gordon Pennycook )

"On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change: Evidence from over 50,000 participants in 16 countries" ✍️Michael N Stagnaro & Gordon Pennycook Key finding: Reflection is associated with belief change independent of the direction of change. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Are AIs the misinformation machines? Or are we humans the originals? In our latest episode of the Behavioral Design Podcast, Gordon Pennycook schools Samuel Salzer 🇺🇦 and I on all things BS and misinfo. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/behav…

Feel like passing the time while anxiously waiting for the election? I was on 3 fun podcasts recently #1: You Are Not So Smart with David McRaney: youarenotsosmart.com/2024/10/29/yan… Focus is on our recent AI-conspiracy belief paper. Got to join with David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social & Tom Costello!

This is a very cool paper by two of my fav people! Many studies have shown that more reflective people believe in God less. This paper shows that *changing* belief (in either direction) is ALSO associated with reflectiveness. Higher CRT = more willing to update beliefs

NEW: According to Oxford and MIT researchers Mohsen Mosleh, David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social, and @cameron_martel_, social media users are more likely to follow and engage with like-minded accounts that demonstrate similar political views. oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/re…

If you had to pick *1* measure of racial attitudes to predict white Americans' Trump support, we find opposition to anti-racism (agreement w/ statements like "People these days can’t speak their minds without someone accusing them of racism") is most correlated

Today Meta announced it's getting rid of fact-checking to avoid bias. But is there actually evidence of anti-conservative bias? Not really - conservatives get suspended more but also share more low quality news (as judged by politically balanced crowds) ⏬

Back to X just to post new PNAS paper for Elon Musk: we find Community Notes flags 2.3x more Republicans than Democrats for misleading posts! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…