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The Israel-Hamas conflict has produced a prodigious amount of disinformation, putting people who fact-check claims — especially those who live in the region...
While fact-checks will not alter an individual’s long-held worldview, they can “reduce belief in misinformation, often durably so.”
“Fake news” loves a crisis. It’s clear now that false information has played a role in recent events around the world from divisive elections to the COVID pandemic to the conflict roiling Israel and Gaza
"Misinformation is not like plumbing, a problem you fix. It is a social condition, like crime, that you must constantly monitor and adjust to."
Artificial intelligence is likely to make the ‘fake news’ problem worse. But it can also be used to help us counter misinformation.