FactBar EDU

We are delighted to announce the expansion of Crossover to Finland 🇫🇮! Our project was approved as part of #EMIFund 2nd round of calls. We join forces with @Faktabaari to monitor disinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential and #EU elections. More info: crossover.social/crossover-head…

Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar: "We are pioneers of a completely new quality of information warfare. No textbooks or trainings have ever prepared us for this. The biggest information challenge of this war is not enemy disinformation, but the need for the entire society to switch to a wartime information regime. Ukraine did not introduce military censorship. We went with the presumption that our society is mature and that explanations would be enough. During the full-scale invasion, the Ministry of Defense held a huge number of offline meetings with bloggers, experts, and journalists, and we always found understanding. A year ago, the Ministry of Defense developed and submitted to all regional administrations rules for covering military information. All the heads of the military-civilian administrations are in touch with us 24/7 on this issue. And the result is obvious. We have conducted several educational campaigns on the rules of reporting information during the war. To a large extent, we have coped with the task and the bet on the maturity of society was right. However, there are definitely people who can post anything for the sake of views and likes. Nowadays, many people make their public capital on the military theme. But adult society has already begun to condemn and distrust such people. In addition, we still have isolated leaks of sensitive information from the mobilized. We have cases when civilians help brigades in exchange for information and even in exchange for interviews with certain media. The Ministry of Defense, together with the Armed Forces, is addressing this issue. But isolated cases in an army of several hundred thousand is not a bad result. Now we can say that our society has mastered the specifics of disclosing information during the war unprecedentedly quickly and has learned to distinguish enemy IPSO very well." facebook.com/ganna.maliar/p…

"...factchecking does work, as it significantly increases belief accuracy." But when it runs counter to beliefs it "increased participants’ hostile media perception." Study: Downstream Effects of Fact-Checking on Social Media journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… by @Ingrid_Bachmann @SebaValenz ht @vaillancourt_dr Also: "...what really matters is correcting misinformation, not the details of its presentation."

🚨Out in @NatureHumBehav🚨 We examine psychology of misinformation across 16 countries, N=34k ➤Consistent cognitive, social & ideological predictors of misinfo belief ➤Interventions (accuracy prompts, diglit tips, crowdsourcing) all broadly effective nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/

Faktabaari contributed to 🇫🇮#FinnishED workshop by University of Washington @uwCIP to empower 🇺🇸 US educators w/ Finnish whole-of-society approach. Materials and highlights to teaching for resilience and for an Informed Public below.👇🧵 @FactBar faktabaari.fi/edu/teaching-f…