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Universities across the world are in a strong position to sidestep the hype and help regulators and public communicators of all kinds respond quickly and effectively to the threat of online disinformation in time for the next big year of elections. Agile, well-informed regulation is achievable.

Numbers have unique power in public discourse but have often been used in misleading ways. There is a long history of spurious numerical claims about climate change, public health, and immigration. Poor objective and subjective numeracy also mean many people struggle to judge statistics. Using data from our in-depth, longitudinal qualitative fieldwork, in our new article we explore how people gauge the trustworthiness of numerical dis- and misinformation on personal messaging platforms.

Our new public report from the Everyday Misinformation Project. Based on a nationally-representative survey of 2,000 people, the findings cast serious doubt on whether these tags are currently effective as misinformation warnings. Meta can do better.

In this guest post, Mohamed Zayani (Georgetown University) and Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern University) explain the argument of their new book, out now in my series with Oxford University Press.