{"id":7598,"date":"2024-12-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2024-12-05T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T07:13:47","slug":"mistrustful-adults-could-be-more-vulnerable-to-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-and-bad-at-spotting-fake-news-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mistrustful-adults-could-be-more-vulnerable-to-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-and-bad-at-spotting-fake-news-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistrustful adults could be more vulnerable to vaccine conspiracy theories and bad at spotting fake news, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-12-05\/misinformation-health-vaccine-fake-news\/104672748\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Because outrage is associated with increased engagement online, outrage evoking misinformation may be likely to spread farther in part because of the algorithmic amplification of engaging content.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">This is important because algorithms may up-rank news articles associated with outrage, even if a user intended to express outrage toward the article for containing misinformation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Our findings suggest that misinformation exploits outrage to spread and offers concrete evidence for policy-makers to consider when attempting to craft effective solutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-12-05\/misinformation-health-vaccine-fake-news\/104672748\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Because outrage is associated with increased engagement online, outrage evoking misinformation may be likely to spread farther in part because of the algorithmic amplification of engaging content.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">This is important because algorithms may up-rank news articles associated with outrage, even if a user intended to express outrage toward the article for containing misinformation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Our findings suggest that misinformation exploits outrage to spread and offers concrete evidence for policy-makers to consider when attempting to craft effective solutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mistrustful-adults-could-be-more-vulnerable-to-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-and-bad-at-spotting-fake-news-report-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mistrustful adults could be more vulnerable to vaccine conspiracy theories and bad at spotting fake news, report finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127,525,35,276,8,130,470],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-covid-denial","tag-disinformation","tag-misinformation","tag-research","tag-science-denial","tag-social-media","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7601,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}