Inoculation Reduces Social Media Engagement with Affectively Polarized Content in the UK and US

Inoculation reduces social media engagement with affectively polarized content in the UK and US

The generation and distribution of hyper-partisan content on social media has gained millions of exposure across platforms, often allowing malevolent actors to influence and disrupt democracies. The spread of this content is facilitated by real users’ engaging with it on platforms. The current study tests the efficacy of an ‘inoculation’ intervention via six online survey-based experiments in the UK and US. Experiments 1–3 (total N = 3276) found…

Gardaí have found foreign actors using social media to 'amplify' far-right content in Ireland

Garda Deputy Commissioner Shawna Coxon was speaking this week at a conference on Policing of Far Right Intimidation in the Republic of Ireland.