Misinformation - Rationale Magazine

17 Feb

The spread of QAnon beyond the United States

17/02/2023
By Robert Dover
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The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22 per cent o...

05 Feb

Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available a...

31 Jan

History

Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or 'the age', was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the ...

18 Jan

Feature series, Philosophy & Psychology

The antidote to arrogance: How to be wrong the right way

This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the June 2020 edition of Australi...

07 Jan

Science & Health

In defence of nudging

07/01/2023
By Meg Elkins
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Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions – has been one of the most...

06 Dec

Law & Politics

Misinformation in the mainstream media

06/12/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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While we worry about social media misinformation we overlook that one of the main sources of misinformation about politics is mainstrea...

28 Aug

Science & Health

Misinformation: The common thread between pandemics

Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social med...

06 Apr

Law & Politics

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

22/07/2022
By Richard Lachman
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As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what...

25 Mar

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 2)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, ...

24 Mar

Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 1)

22/07/2022
By Noel Turnbull
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There has been much social science research on polarisation recently – some assisted by AI-driven analysis of social media; some of it ...

21 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

When faith and reality collide in pandemics

22/07/2022
By Jack Dikian
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The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346-53. It is the m...

10 Dec

Science & Health

Climate change: How machine learning holds a key to combating misinformation

07/09/2022
By John Cook
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” This quote appears in many forms. In some var...

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