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Section 1 Historical Perspectives |
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1.1 Three Historical Examples of "Fake News" |
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1.2 The Deep Roots of Fake News |
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1.3 Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society |
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1.4 To Understand How Science Denial Works, Look to History |
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1.5 How the Pandemic Remade Science Journalism |
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1.6 COVID Has Created a Perfect Storm for Fringe Science |
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Section 2 Why We Fall For Fake News |
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2.1 People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features |
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2.2 Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News |
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2.3 How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain |
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2.4 Why Are Deepfakes So Effective? |
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2.5 Al-Generated Deepfakes and the Challenge of Detection |
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Section 3 The Role of Social Media |
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3.1 You Can't Handle the Truth---at Least on Twitter |
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3.2 How Facebook Hinders Misinformation Research |
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3.3 Russia's Information War Is Being Waged on Social Media Platforms |
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3.4 YouTube's Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed, Experts Warn |
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3.5 How Fake News Goes Viral---Here's the Math |
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3.6 Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It |
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Section 4 The Politics of Disinformation |
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4.1 How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories |
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4.2 Personality Type, as well as Politics, Predicts Who Shares Fake News |
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4.3 Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Susceptible to Fake News, but for Different Reasons |
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4.4 Fake News Websites May Not Have a Major Effect on Elections |
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4.5 Russian Misinformation Seeks to Confound, Not Convince |
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4.6 Clicks, Lies and Videotape |
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Section 5 Improving Media Literacy |
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5.1 Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder |
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5.2 Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies |
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5.3 We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School |
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5.4 The Psychology of Fact-Checking |
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5.5 (Dis)trust in Science |
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| Glossary |
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| Further Information |
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| Citations |
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| Index |
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