APS
2025 APS Annual Convention
New Perspectives on Curbing Misinformation on Social Media: Redesigning Platforms From Individual Constraints to Collective Wisdom
This session examines why current misinformation interventions have limited real-world effectiveness and explores novel platform-level approaches that leverage collective wisdom. We show the limited impact of some popular interventions, introduce social rewards for trustworthy information,, and demonstrate how partisan motivations can enhance, not impede, crowd-sourced fact checking.
Chairs & Discussants
- Wendy WoodChair
University of Southern California - Jon RoozenbeekDiscussant
University of Cambridge
Presentations
- Beyond the Headlines: On the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Misinformation InterventionsJon Roozenbeek, Miriam Remshard, Yara Kyrychenko
- Altering Instrumental Learning on Social Media to Make Accuracy a Social CurrencyGizem Ceylan, Wendy Wood
- Harnessing Partisan Motives to Combat MisinformationJennifer Allen, Cameron Martel, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand
