I had a chance to host a chat with the brilliant Sander van der Linden for this Facebook Live event through the University of Cambridge social media team, and we had a great audience with tons of questions. You can watch the full discussion here:

https://fb.watch/rC8jaYl3T7/

Here’s a Twitter thread where I included some of the links we talked about, if you’d like to check them out:

How do we fight fake news?

I had a blast chatting with @Sander_vdLinden for our Facebook Live chat hosted by @Cambridge_Uni, available here: https://t.co/0SaNDy3Zhi

Sander’s work is incredibly important and hope you can give it a watch! #cambridge #psychology #news #research pic.twitter.com/nFkENbBGWz

— Tyler Shores (@tylershores) December 3, 2021

The research on pre-bunking to combat misinformation is both impressive and vitally needed in today’s social media landscape. You can read a little more about Sander’s work at the Social Decision Making Lab at Cambridge here.

Be sure to check out the Bad News Game and Harmony Square Game that Sander and his team worked on.