Microblogging Environment Simulator: An Ethical Approach

Barbosa, Maria Araújo; Marcondes, Francisco Supino; Durães, Dalila; Nováis, Paulo

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-18192-4_38

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“…It seems that these issues are being recognised and that attempts are being made to develop strategies to mitigate them. One example is the platform described in [35], which simulates Twitter and allows social media studies to be conducted without compromising moral principles.…”

Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The anonymised volunteers were accustomed Twitter users recruited at the university, from whom the authors obtained informed consent. The experiment was conducted in a laboratory environment using the microblogging simulator [35]. The number of participants was chosen according to the guidelines suggested in [56].…”

Section: Cognitive Reinforcement Assessment and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotional and Mental Nuances and Technological Approaches: Optimising Fact-Check Dissemination through Cognitive Reinforcement Technique

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Gala

et al. 2024

Electronics

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The issue of the dissemination of fake news has been widely addressed in the literature, but the issue of the dissemination of fact checks to debunk fake news has not received sufficient attention. Fake news is tailored to reach a wide audience, a concern that, as this paper shows, does not seem to be present in fact checking. As a result, fact checking, no matter how good it is, fails in its goal of debunking fake news for the general public. This paper addresses this problem with the aim of increasing the effectiveness of the fact checking of online social media posts through the use of cognitive tools, yet grounded in ethical principles. The paper consists of a profile of the prevalence of fact checking in online social media (both from the literature and from field data) and an assessment of the extent to which engagement can be increased by using simple cognitive enhancements in the text of the post. The focus is on Snopes and X (formerly Twitter).

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Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cognitive Reinforcement Assessment and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%