The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation

By J. Roozenbeek, S. van der Linden. 2019

401 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. S. van der Linden
2. J. Roozenbeek
3. Melisa Basol
4. Thomas Nygren
5. J. Compton
6. John Cook
7. Shyam Sundar
8. Stephan Lewandowsky

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. van der Linden
2. J. Roozenbeek
3. Thomas Nygren
4. Melisa Basol
5. J. Compton
6. John Cook
7. Thai Le
8. Dongwon Lee

Citations in the corpus

• You are fake news: political bias in perceptions of fake news (2020, background): “…Rand, 2019), cognitive style (Bronstein et al., 2019), the spread of fake news during elections (Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017; Grinberg et al., 2019) and potential solutions, such as preemptively inoculating individuals against fake news (Cook et al., 2017; Roozenbeek and van der Linden, 2018, 2019).”
• “Fake News” Is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content (2019, background): “…of ad-hominem attacks, hyperboles, and other attention-grabbing techniques; as well as its lack of evidence to support claims and display of inaccurate pictures and soundbites (Borden & Tew, 2007; Davis, 2016; Howard et al., 2017; Najmabadi, 2016; Reilly, 2012; Roozenbeek & van der Linden, 2019).”
• Combating Fake News (2019, background): “her study proposed an active inoculation strategy using a “fake news game", where participants were asked to create content by using misleading tactics from the perspective of fake news creators [94]. The authors found preliminary evidence of its effectiveness in reducing perceived reliability ”
• Breaking Harmony Square: A game that “inoculates” against political misinformation (2020, background): “The game functions as a perspective-taking exercise (i.e., by putting the player in the position of a fake news creator), an approach known as “active inoculation” (McGuire & Papageorgis, 1961a; Roozenbeek & van der Linden, 2018).”
• Prebunking interventions based on the psychological theory of “inoculation” can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures. (2020, methodology): “…study: Bad News Intervention Previous work has shown that inoculation theory can be used to combat various types of online misinformation, for example about conspiracy theories (Banas & Miller, 2013), climate change (van der Linden et al., 2017), and immigration (Roozenbeek & van der Linden, 2018).”
• Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories (2021, background): “…within‐subject design (N = 15,000) finds that the active experience significantly inoculates (d = 0.16 to d = 0.52) players against misinformation (Roozenbeek & van der Linden, 2018, 2019) and that the game also boosts confidence, a critical factor in resisting persuasion (Basol et al., 2020).”