Re: Misinfo & Social Media Bubbles

"explicit nudge" - doesn't sound very nice, almost like violating someone's
virtual space...for that matter neither does an "implicit nudge"...



On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 22:25, Farnaz Jahanbakhsh <farnazj@mit.edu> wrote:

> As a form of friction, platforms could also explicitly nudge people to
> pause and think about accuracy before they are about to share content. We
> did a study where we showed some news stories to people one at a time and
> asked them whether they would share each. We required some people to simply
> indicate whether the content is accurate or inaccurate before asking them
> whether they would share it. These people ended up sharing less false
> content than before (there was also a reduction in sharing of true content
> although to a lesser degree). For some people, we added to the friction by
> not only asking them about accuracy but also requiring them to explain why
> they believed the content is or is not accurate. For these people, sharing
> of false content was even further reduced:
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3449092
>
> Farnaz Jahanbakhsh
>
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> The idea of adding friction is a good one. It came up in the UX of
> credibility subgroup of CredCo, where it was observed that designing the
> interface to make it extremely easy to share content makes users more
> likely to share misinformation. There have been several publications in the
> UX literature about that (e.g.,
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2851581.2892410).
> -Annette
>
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> This article <https://thefulcrum.us/big-picture/Media/facebook-algorithm>
> by Filippo Menczer of The Fulcrum was reprinted in our local newspaper,
> under the title "How we fall for misinformation through social media
> bubbles."  It references "complex contagion," which figures prominently in
> Damon Centola's book entitled *Change: How to Make Big Things Happen*.
>
> Menczer suggests one approach to address the problem is to "add friction
> ... to slow down the process of spreading information."
>
> That calls to mind not only Daniel Kahneman's distinction between fast
> and slow thinking <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow>
> but also Donald Norman's assertion <http://ambur.net/smart.pdf> that the
> greatest peril is that of “experiencing when one should be reflecting ...
> where entertainment takes precedence over thought.”
>
> Among the strategies posed by Centola are:
>
>    - Don't rely on contagiousness
>    - Use the network periphery
>    - Design team networks to improve discovery and reduce bias
>
> It will be interesting to see what this group may decide to try to do
> together along those lines.
>
> In the meantime, The Fulcrum's about statement is now available in StratML
> format at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#FLCRM  Their tag line is
> "Leveraging Our Differences".
>
> My 2.0 rewrite of the Serenity  Prayer is available on LinkedIn
> <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/owenambur_when-i-first-posted-my-20-rendition-of-the-activity-6846603303095156736-ftIg>
> .
>
> Owen
>
>
>