Vaccinating Against Hate: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Confer Resistance to Persuasion by Extremist Propaganda

Braddock, Kurt

doi:10.1080/09546553.2019.1693370

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“…Some explanations for belief in misinformation identify factors that resist intervention ( 4 ), while others propose policy approaches that are effective in practice but difficult to scale ( 34 , 44 ). Inoculation, while effective in preemptively refuting misinformation in specific domains ( 27 – 30 ), may not improve discernment when evaluating a diverse array of real-world news content. By contrast, these results show that a brief intervention which could be inexpensively disseminated at scale can be effective at reducing the perceived accuracy of false news stories, helping users more accurately gauge the credibility of news content they encounter on different topics or issues.…”

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“…First, inoculation interventions have been employed to protect audiences against misleading content by warning of misinformation and either correcting specific false claims or identifying tactics used to promote it. This approach has been shown to reduce the persuasiveness of misinformation in specific domains ( 27 – 32 ). In addition, other studies evaluate the effectiveness of providing warnings about specific misinformation ( 33 , 34 ).…”

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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Guess

Lerner

Lyons

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Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and political antecedents to this phenomenon, few studies have explored the role of digital media literacy shortfalls. Using data from preregistered survey experiments conducted around recent elections in the United States and India, we assess the effectiveness of an intervention modeled closely on the world’s largest media literacy campaign, which provided “tips” on how to spot false news to people in 14 countries. Our results indicate that exposure to this intervention reduced the perceived accuracy of both mainstream and false news headlines, but effects on the latter were significantly larger. As a result, the intervention improved discernment between mainstream and false news headlines among both a nationally representative sample in the United States (by 26.5%) and a highly educated online sample in India (by 17.5%). This increase in discernment remained measurable several weeks later in the United States (but not in India). However, we find no effects among a representative sample of respondents in a largely rural area of northern India, where rates of social media use are far lower.

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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

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Lerner

Lyons

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…We specifically tested for collinearity among information sources and found that the degree of collinearity was not high enough to exclude a particular source. Due to the significant challenges in convincing those who are strongly committed in their anti-vaccination beliefs [ 34 , 35 ], for multivariable regression analysis we conducted multinomial logistic regression to identify the relative risk of being very likely to take the vaccine compared to those in the some-hesitancy group. A generalized Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test for multinomial logistic regression models was used to assess the goodness of fit [ 36 ].…”

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Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

Piltch-Loeb¹,

Savoia²,

et al. 2021

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Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine remains high among the US population. Now that the vaccine is available to priority populations, it is critical to convince those that are hesitant to take the vaccine. Public health communication about the vaccine as well as misinformation on the vaccine occurs through a variety of different information channels. Some channels of information are more commonly found to spread misinformation. Given the expansive information environment, we sought to characterize the use of different media channels for COVID-19 vaccine information and determine the relationship between information channel and vaccine acceptance. We used quota sampling of vaccine priority groups [N = 2,650] between December 13 and 23, 2020 and conducted bivariate chi-squared tests and multivariable multinomial logistic regression analyses to determine the relative impact of channels of information on vaccine acceptance. We found traditional channels of information, especially National TV, National newspapers, and local newspapers increased the likelihood of vaccine acceptance. Individuals who received information from traditional media compared to social media or both traditional and social media were most likely to accept the vaccine. The implications of this study suggest social media channels have a role to play in educating the hesitant to accept the vaccine, while traditional media channels should continue to promote data-driven and informed vaccine content to their viewers.

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“…We specifically tested for collinearity among information sources and found that the degree of collinearity was not high enough to exclude a particular source. Due to the significant challenges in convincing those who are strongly committed in their anti-vaccination beliefs (24, 25), for multivariable regression analysis we conducted multinomial logistic regression to identify the relative risk of being very likely to take the vaccine compared to those in the some-hesitancy group. A generalized Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test for multinomial logistic regression models was used to assess the goodness of fit (26).…”

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Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

Piltch-Loeb¹,

Savoia²,

Goldberg

et al. 2021

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Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine remains high among the US population. Now that the vaccine is available to priority populations, it is critical to convince those that are hesitant to take the vaccine. Public health communication about the vaccine as well as misinformation on the vaccine occurs through a variety of different information channels. Some channels of information are more commonly found to spread misinformation. Given the expansive information environment, we sought to characterize the use of different media channels for COVID-19 vaccine information and determine the relationship between information channel and vaccine acceptance. We conducted a convenience sample of vaccine priority groups (N=2,650) between December 13 and 23, 2020 and conducted bivariate chi-squared tests and multivariable multinomial logistic regression analyses to determine the relative impact of channels of information on vaccine acceptance. We found traditional channels of information, especially National TV, National newspapers, and local newspapers increased the relative risk of vaccine acceptance. Individuals who received information from traditional media compared to social media or both traditional and social media were most likely to accept the vaccine. The implications of this study suggest social media channels have a role to play in educating the hesitant to accept the vaccine, while traditional media channels should continue to promote data-driven and informed vaccine content to their viewers.

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Vaccinating Against Hate: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Confer Resistance to Persuasion by Extremist Propaganda

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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

Examining the effect of information channel on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

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