In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and misleading news on social media1–4. Academics and practitioners alike have asked why people share such misinformation, and sought solutions to reduce the sharing of misinformation5–7. Here, we attempt to address both of these questions. First, we find that the veracity of headlines has little effect on sharing intentions, despite having a large effect on judgments of accuracy. This dissociation suggests that sharing does not necessarily indicate belief. Nonetheless, most participants say it is important to share only accurate news. To shed light on this apparent contradiction, we carried out four survey experiments and a field experiment on Twitter; the results show that subtly shifting attention to accuracy increases the quality of news that people subsequently share. Together with additional computational analyses, these findings indicate that people often share misinformation because their attention is focused on factors other than accuracy—and therefore they fail to implement a strongly held preference for accurate sharing. Our results challenge the popular claim that people value partisanship over accuracy8,9, and provide evidence for scalable attention-based interventions that social media platforms could easily implement to counter misinformation online. Surveys and a field experiment with Twitter users show that prompting people to think about the accuracy of news sources increases the quality of the news that they share online.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2

Ukrainian ex-police chief appears at his trial for Maidan crimes after 7 years in hiding
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As Ukraine and Russia once again come to the negotiating table over the war in eastern Ukraine, a frontline town is trying to put itself back on the map.
— Read on www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/on-ukraines-frontline-a-village-wants-to-have-its-original-name-back-new-york/

This article is taken from the July 2021 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issue for just £10.
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Anglo-Saxons Provoke the Waves: Pro-Kremlin Media Vent about HMS Defender and EU Decisions – EU vs DISINFORMATION
— Read on euvsdisinfo.eu/anglo-saxons-provoke-the-waves-pro-kremlin-media-vent-about-hms-defender-and-eu-decisions/

Russian FSB caught doctoring anonymous witness testimony in trial of 25 Crimean Tatar activists
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Disinformation laid fertile ground for toxic and dehumanizing rhetoric on Belarusian TV.
— Read on euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-fuels-hate-on-belarusian-tv/

Kremlin spy participated in secret meeting to fund Italian separatist party – intelNews.org
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Russia has taken at least a million archaeological artifacts out of the annexed Crimea since 2014. This was stated by representative of the Ministry of
— Read on empr.media/news/occupied-crimea/russia-has-looted-more-than-a-million-artifacts-from-crimea/

Released American says Myanmar military using torture to hunt down opposition leaders – CNN
— Read on amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/27/media/nathan-maung-interview-myanmar-intl-hnk/index.html