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All the material is free to use in classrooms and workshops, and experts hope exposing children to the tools will counter the impact of misinformation, van der Linden said.
Children who have difficulty with reasoning about conflicting mental representations are likely to overwrite their original memories with misinformation because they cannot reconcile two contradicting views of what actually occurred. [10] Source monitoring and the understanding of knowledge states, play a key role in resisting suggestions.
It’s an effective way to find common ground, build trust, and learn more about their thought process, Israel points out. “We’re not saying it’s true, and we’re not saying it’s not true ...
Kennedy has proposed removing processed foods from school lunches and limiting the use of food dyes, saying that the U.S. obesity epidemic, as well as a rise in chronic diseases like diabetes, are ...
Facebook and Google had opposed the introduction of the law to combat fake news, claiming that existing legislation was adequate to address the problem and that an effective way of combating misinformation is through educating citizens on how to distinguish reliable from unreliable information. [415] The bill was passed June 3, 2019.
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence is a 2019 book by Alex Berenson. In it, Berenson makes claims that cannabis use directly causes psychosis and violence , claims denounced as alarmist and inaccurate by many in the scientific and medical communities.
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According to Anne Mintz, editor of Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet, one of the simplest ways to determine whether information is factual is to use common sense. [65] Mintz advises that the reader check whether the information makes sense and whether the source or sharers of the information might be biased or have an agenda.