Fight Fake News with "Cognitive Immunization."
Channel: Felix Bast
Date: 2020-04-18

A historical introduction to the spread of 'viral' fake news and conspiracy theories at the time of global epidemics (Coronavirus vs. Plague & HIV), with insights from peer-reviewed scientific research on vulnerabilities and effective strategies to fend ourselves from the post-truth. Also covered are detecting fake news texts, images, videos and Artificial Intelligence-generated 'deepfake' morphed videos with screencast tutorial, all within 24 minutes.

References

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0279-9
https://bookofbadarguments.com/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-why-smart-people-believe-coronavirus-myths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/reality_check
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1405237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127888/
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
https://www.bbc.com/news/52012242
https://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-read-anymore
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910

Fake news spotting games
http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/
https://www.getbadnews.com/#intro
https://www.fakeittomakeitgame.com/

Fact checking websites:
https://www.snopes.com/
https://www.altnews.in/
https://www.hoax-slayer.com/
https://www.politifact.com/
https://www.factcheck.org/
https://fullfact.org/

WHO Myth busters
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters
http://inyas.in/who-advice-on-corona-virus-for-the-public/
https://indscicov.in/about-isrc/for-public/busting-hoaxes/


by Dr. Felix Bast https://sites.google.com/view/felixbast