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Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation
We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants in the experimental (inoculation) condition watched a video that explained common rhetorical markers of radical-Islamist and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34410513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z |
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author | Lewandowsky, Stephan Yesilada, Muhsin |
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description | We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants in the experimental (inoculation) condition watched a video that explained common rhetorical markers of radical-Islamist and Islamophobic disinformation that had been identified in an analysis of YouTube content. The information was presented in a neutral context not involving Islam and focused on analysis of the misleading argumentation. The control group watched a video about an unrelated topic. Participants were then exposed to target videos with “gateway” content that constituted an entry point to potential Islamist or Islamophobic radicalization. Both videos contained numerous items of disinformation. Participants then answered a variety of questions such as how likely they were to share the video, their level of agreement, and their perceived accuracy of the video. Participants who had received the inoculation displayed less agreement with the video content, perceived the video as less reliable, and were less likely to share it in comparison with participants in the control group. The study provides support for the use of argument-based inoculation in combatting extremist messages. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-83741092021-08-19 Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation Lewandowsky, Stephan Yesilada, Muhsin Cogn Res Princ Implic Original Article We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants in the experimental (inoculation) condition watched a video that explained common rhetorical markers of radical-Islamist and Islamophobic disinformation that had been identified in an analysis of YouTube content. The information was presented in a neutral context not involving Islam and focused on analysis of the misleading argumentation. The control group watched a video about an unrelated topic. Participants were then exposed to target videos with “gateway” content that constituted an entry point to potential Islamist or Islamophobic radicalization. Both videos contained numerous items of disinformation. Participants then answered a variety of questions such as how likely they were to share the video, their level of agreement, and their perceived accuracy of the video. Participants who had received the inoculation displayed less agreement with the video content, perceived the video as less reliable, and were less likely to share it in comparison with participants in the control group. The study provides support for the use of argument-based inoculation in combatting extremist messages. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z. Springer International Publishing 2021-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8374109/ /pubmed/34410513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Lewandowsky, Stephan Yesilada, Muhsin Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title | Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title_full | Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title_fullStr | Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title_full_unstemmed | Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title_short | Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation |
title_sort | inoculating against the spread of islamophobic and radical-islamist disinformation |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34410513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z |
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