{"id":50288,"date":"2017-01-24T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50288"},"modified":"2017-01-24T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T09:43:03","slug":"not-the-onion-cambridge-scientists-consider-fake-news-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=50288","title":{"rendered":"Not The Onion: Cambridge Scientists Consider Fake News &#8216;Vaccine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-38714404\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The appearance of fake news on websites and social media has inspired scientists to develop a &#8220;vaccine&#8221; to immunise people against the problem.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Cambridge study devised psychological tools to target fact distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers suggest &#8220;pre-emptively exposing&#8221; readers to a small &#8220;dose&#8221; of the misinformation can help organisations cancel out bogus claims.<\/p>\n<p>Stories on the US election and Syria are among those to have caused concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Misinformation can be sticky, spreading and replicating like a virus,&#8221; said the University of Cambridge study&#8217;s lead author Dr Sander van der Linden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea is to provide a cognitive repertoire that helps build up resistance to misinformation, so the next time people come across it they are less susceptible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: BBC: The appearance of fake news on websites and social media has inspired scientists to develop a &#8220;vaccine&#8221; to immunise people against the problem. A University of Cambridge study devised psychological tools to target fact distortion. Researchers suggest &#8220;pre-emptively exposing&#8221; readers to a small &#8220;dose&#8221; of the misinformation can help organisations cancel out bogus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorship","category-elite","category-perception-management","category-social-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50289,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50288\/revisions\/50289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}