{"674955":{"#nid":"674955","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Create Winning Strategy to Combat Vaccine Misinformation on X","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new in-depth analysis shows that users who reply to misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine on X, formerly known as Twitter, with a positive attitude, politeness, and strong evidence are more likely to encourage others to disbelieve the incorrect information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from three Georgia Tech schools found the most effective way to confront vaccine misinformation on the X platform.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey also created a predictive tool to show users whether their reply will succeed in changing minds or backfire and reinforce the misinformation. It can also pinpoint well-meaning replies meant to contradict misinformation but that interfere with social correction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA research paper with the full findings will be presented this week at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/websci24.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EACM Web Science Conference\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in Stuttgart, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike white blood cells attacking a virus, social media users have been known to band together and debunk online misinformation being spread online in a phenomenon researchers call social correction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe success rate of social correction on most social media sites has not been determined. However, researchers now have a clearer picture of how successful user input can be on X.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir method uses a blend of artificial intelligence with a dataset of 1.5 million tweets containing misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine. The researchers then studied user replies to misinformation as well as the consequences of those replies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the paper, the researchers write that their data set pre-dates the rollout of X\u2019s community notes feature, which allows users to submit corrections to posts on the platform. They point out that this system restricts users from responding to fact-checking text and labels and does not reflect the large flow of information on the site.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs one of the first taxonomies of user social correction on the X platform, the researchers hope will aid future fact-checking efforts. While the paper only focused on text posts in the English language, it is a framework that can be expanded to address the growing threat of misinformation online.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECorrective or Backfire: Characterizing and Predicting User Response to Social Correction\u003C\/em\u003E was co-authored by Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EBing He\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EYingchen (Eric) Ma\u003C\/strong\u003E and their advisors Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur \u003Cstrong\u003EMustaque Ahamad\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor with joint appointments in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new analysis from Georgia Tech indicates that a phenomenon known as social correction may help to counter false and misleading online claims.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New analysis from Georgia Tech indicates that a phenomenon known as social correction may help to counter false and misleading onloine claims. 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