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Tag: Fake News

Interview & Opinion

16 April 2020

Dangerous mix of facts and fiction

Interview: Sonja Burger

The corona crisis is the ideal hotbed for crude conspiracy theories. Claus Oberhauser explains what characterizes them, why change is on the horizon and where one finds parallels to the past. Historian Oberhauser is a co-initiator of an interdisciplinary research network on conspiratorial counter-narratives. Continue reading “Dangerous mix of facts and fiction”

Projects

29 April 2019

Escaping the (mental) echo chamber

A research team from Graz simulated creative thought processes using a computer and investigated the role played by creativity in the way people use digital media. First results indicate that those who think outside the box get more out of the web, even though personalised search recommendations make access to new information more difficult. Continue reading “Escaping the (mental) echo chamber”

Projects

27 February 2017

Who can be trusted on the internet?

In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, scientists examined how the credibility of information from the web can be assessed in order to obtain more effective data from platforms such as Flickr. Continue reading “Who can be trusted on the internet?”

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