Fri. 08/26 - Prebunking Conspiratorial Thinking
Google ran a study using its own pre-roll ads to try to prebunk people before they fall for conspiracy theories. Plus, scientists have found the first-ever evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet’s atmosphere beyond our solar system. And the curious...
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Google ran a study using its own pre-roll ads to try to prebunk people before they fall for conspiracy theories. Plus, scientists have found the first-ever evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet’s atmosphere beyond our solar system. And the curious case of the one song that used to crash any laptop it played on.
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Links:
- Can a YouTube ad change your mind about disinformation? (The Verge)
- Google is trying out ‘pre-bunking’ in an effort to counter misinformation (NBC News)
- YouTube: how a team of scientists worked to inoculate a million users against misinformation (The Conversation)
- NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere (NASA)
- JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time (Syfy Wire)
- Astronomers see carbon dioxide on planet outside solar system for first time (The Harvard Gazette)
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (The Old New Thing, DevBlogs)
- Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops (The Register)
- Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives (TechSpot)
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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