What Will 2022 Bring in the Way of Misinformation on Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In

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January 05, 2022

Cognition What Will 2022 Bring in the Way of Misinformation on Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In The one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is raising concerns about falsehoods that increase the risk of repeat events By Anjana Susarla,Dam Hee Kim,Ethan Zuckerman,The Conversation US

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Confronting Misinformation How to protect society from fear, lies and division | November 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Social media platforms have morphed into public information utilities that control how most people view the world, which makes misinformation they facilitate a fundamental problem for society." Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University

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