A misinformation playbook sharpens judgement without breeding cynicism
Misinformation harms public health and democracy, and generative artificial intelligence now writes falsehoods as persuasive as people's. Defences range from fact-checking individual claims to training people to resist falsehoods. Yet many claims are too new to check, and interventions that teach doubt can reduce belief in truth too. We propose a defence that targets not the facts of each claim but the persuasion strategies that recur across them. Here we show that learning misinformation's persuasion playbook, mapped from 214,646 fact-checked claims in 51 languages, can sharpen human and machine judgement of claims they know little about, without making either more cynical about true cla...
| Authors | Tong Guo, Teng Ye, Yutong Xie et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 15 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 October 2026 |
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