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Preface
Diana Daly
Introduction
Defining Features: Making sense of some important terminology
Kainan Jarrette
Masculinity and Markets: Joe Rogan's interview with Robert Malone
COVID-19 and Immigration: An Us Versus Them Mentality
Kainan Jarrette and Nandini Manepalli
Snake oil: False promises for curing cancer
Kainan Jarrette and Nina Kotova
Atmosphere of Threat: The "Great Reset" conspiracy theory and climate change denial
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Information Literacy
Debunking and Prebunking: An Overview
Inoculation Theory
Verification and Fact-Checking
Content Moderation
Bot Detection
Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking (Cook et al, 2020)
5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after (Starbird et al, 2020)
Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic (Starbird, 2020)
We are all propagandists now (Mercieca, 2021)
When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’ (Hertwig et al, 2023)
It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation (Shah, 2021)
Glossary
Alt Extra Credit
In this section, we learn about interventions to help combat misinformation and disinformation.
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