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Rather than debunking misinformation after it’s already spread, prebunking – or preemptive debunking - is effective at reducing susceptibility to misinformation at scale.

Fact-checking, or debunking, is a popular approach to tackling misinformation. However, although fact-checking is valuable and mostly effective at reducing belief in specific falsehoods, it has certain limitations: people who believe in or spread misinformation don’t engage much with fact-checks; people’s political beliefs appear to interfere with their views on fact-checking; and misinformation can spread faster and further on social networks than fact-checked content.

The Cross-Border Local initiative offers grants to journalists interested in local, cross-border investigative journalism; training and mentoring in various aspects of investigative journalism; and a mini-MBA for local news media executives.

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Jon Roozenbeek, the British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, will introduce a prebunking approach that is grounded in inoculation theory, which posits that you can build resistance against unwanted persuasion attempts or manipulative messages by preemptively exposing people to a “weakened dose” of misinformation, much like a medical vaccine builds resistance against future infection.

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Prague
Czechia