A meta-analysis of linguistic cues to deception. These results indicate that increasing the perplexity of content increases the probabilities of a content being classified as junk science, clickbait or factual news while decreasing perplexity augments the probability of a piece of text being classified as conspiracy theory, fake news, hate speech or rumors. James Gunn and Peter Safran Named Co-CEOs Of DC Studios, 10 Things You Didnt Know about Jee Young Han, Hulu Welcomes Newcomers To The Black Stories Hub. Thought processes more common among those who hold far-right political beliefs, such as paranoid ideation and distrust of authority, also correlate with an increased endorsement of conspiratorial narratives (van Prooijen, J.-W., et al., Social Psychology and Personality Science, Vol. In March 2020, nearly 30% of U.S. adults believed the Chinese government created the coronavirus as a bioweapon (Social Science & Medicine, Vol. Step 5: Esthetic Analysis. This has implications for previous and future research. The film discusses the role of African and aboriginal people in history and argues some achievements have not been properly recorded or credited to them. Here, the algorithm considers clusters A and B and the formula calculates the average of the distances taken over all pairs of individual elements a A and b B. Exp Syst Appl 37(9):61826191, Ragini JR, Anand PMR, Bhaskar V (2018) Big data analytics for disaster response and recovery through sentiment analysis. The category for each website is extracted from the OpenSources project (Zimdars, 2017). many people to call this the Information Age. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse cursor over the image. Manag Sci 66:11, Pennycook Gordon, Allan J, Nathaniel C, Derek B, Fugelsang KJA (2015) On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Finally, an increase by one-unit in the morality appealing in a given text is associated with an increase in the log odds of this content being misinformation (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{clickbait}}} = 0.18\), p<0.001; \(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{conspiracy}}} = 0.18\), p<0.001; \(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{fake}}\,{\mathrm{news}}} = 0.20\), p<0.001; \(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{hate}}} = 0.16\), p<0.001; \(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{junk}}\,{\mathrm{science}}} = 0.16\), p<0.001; \(\beta _{{\mathrm{morality}},\,{\mathrm{conspiracy}}} = 0.14\), p<0.001). Explainability: Avoiding inmates running the asylum. Learning at Harvard can happen for every type of learner, at any phase of life. The results show that misinformation, on average, is easier to process in terms of cognitive effort (3% easier to read and 15% less lexically diverse) and more emotional (10 times more relying on negative sentiment and 37% more appealing to morality). In other words, the easier to read a text is, the more likely it pertains to the clickbait, conspiracy theories, fake news, or rumor categories. Technol Soc 13:259278, Swabey L, Nicodemus B, Taylor MM, Gile D (2016) Lexical decisions and related cognitive issues in spoken and signed language interpreting. CAS Ann Am Acad Polit Soc Sci 658(1):121133, Kramer ADI, Guillory JE, Hancock JT (2014) Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Factual news are considered the level of the model output (i.e., the reference). IEEE Comput Intell Magaz 15(1):6475, Article However, this study also has some limitations. The spread of misinformation content is an important and complex problem because not all misleading content is created equal. im just correcting some of the misinformation, that you thought was correct. This model allows not only researchers but also practitioners and non-technical audiences to understand, and potentially adopt the model. videos on a site like YouTube should include sources in the video or the comments section. As for sentiment analysis, highly negative values (sentiment=32) give the following probabilities for each category: factual (p=0.015, CI=[0.013, 0.016]), clickbait (p=0.149, CI=[0.143, 0.155]), conspiracy theories (p=0.189, CI=[0.182, 0.195]), fake news (p=0.205, CI = [0.201, 0.212]), hate speech (p=0.301, CI=[0.292, 0.308]), junk science (p=0.062, CI=[0.060, 0.065]) and rumor (p=0.077, CI=[0.074, 0.080]). When we hear new information, we often think about what it may mean, says Norbert Schwarz, PhD, a professor of psychology and marketing at the University of Southern California. This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by the author. Therefore, words that are certain to appear have 0 surprise (p=1) while words that will never appear have infinite surprise (p=0). Psychol Sci 31(1):7587, Ellis R, Yuan F (2004) The effects of planning on fluency, complexity, and accuracy in second language narrative writing. 29, No. Internet Explorer). Regarding social identity and the appealing to morality, factual news has the lowest value of all categories (morality=3.12, [CI=3.01, 3.22]), again, in concordance with objectivity approaches in reliable news. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 118(26):e2024292118, Risdal M (2016) Getting real about fake news | Kaggle, Rosenquist JN, Fowler JH, Christakis NA (2011) Social network determinants of depression. In this case, I used factual news as the level of the outcome since I am interested how misinformation differs from this baseline using the following formula: where s=sentiment, m=morality, r=readability and p=perplexity. J Commun 50(1):4670, Lang A (2006) Using the limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing to design effective cancer communication messages. The results are the following (Figs. Using sentence length or word syllables as a measure of text complexity has a long tradition in computational linguistics (Afroz et al., 2012; Fuller et al., 2009; Hauch et al., 2015; Monteiro et al., 2018). The health benefits of animal companions have been supported by science but not society, with the disadvantaged facing similar barriers to pet ownership as they do in securing proper healthcare, experts said at the Harvard T.H. Cognition 188(June 2018):3950, Qiu G, He X, Zhang F, Shi Y, Bu J, Chen C (2010) DASA: Dissatisfaction-oriented advertising based on sentiment analysis. One group was asked how fast the cars were going when they hit each other, while the other was asked how fast they were going when they smashed into each other. Trend Cogn Sci 7(10):454459, Fowler JH, Christakis NA (2009) Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study. Google Scholar, Kietzmann J, Lee LW, McCarthy IP, Kietzmann TC (2020) Deepfakes: trick or treat? This is not an optical illusion, but rather color adaptation of the eye. Here the crowdsourced participants look for suspicious domains/titles like com.co. The Harvard community explores this state of rest, its many benefits and functions, and what we can do to ensure that we're getting enough of it. Abrams, Z. The results show that a one-unit increase in the readability score is associated with a decrease in the log odds of categorizing content in the clickbait (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{readability}},\,{\mathrm{clickbait}}} = - 0.06\), p<0.001) conspiracy theories (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{readability}},\,{\mathrm{conspiracy}}} = - 0.05\), p<0.001), fake news (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{readability}},\,{\mathrm{fake}}\,{\mathrm{news}}} = - 0.21\), p<0.001), and rumor (\(\beta _{{\mathrm{readability}},\,{\mathrm{rumor}}} = - 0.04\), p<0.001) categories. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 117(14):76847689, Kononova A, Joo E, Yuan S (2016) If I choose when to switch: Heavy multitaskers remember online content better than light multitaskers when they have the freedom to multitask. 10, No. 15). But psychologists who study fake news warn that its an uphill battle, one that will ultimately require a global cooperative effort among researchers, governments, and social media platforms. In one case, a reporter tweeted that the driver was Middle Eastern, leading others to conclude he was a Muslim terrorist. Similarly, J Broadcast Electron Media 54(3):485507, Lewandowsky S, Ecker UKH, Seifert CM, Schwarz N, Cook J (2012) Misinformation and its correction: continued influence and successful debiasing. With 18k+ articles and 40 novels written, Tom knows a little something about storytelling. 263, 2020). Egypt) and titles (e.g. 907 claimed. Media literacy organizations such as the News Literacy Project (NLP) and First Draft are applying such strategies in an effort to dispel misinformation and disinformation on COVID-19 and other issues. Springer, New York, Vosoughi S, Roy D, Aral S (2018) The spread of true and false news online. An analysis of misinformation from five samples across the United States, Europe, and Mexico showed that substantial portions of each populationanywhere from 15% to 37%believed misinformation about COVID-19 in April and May 2020, representing what the authors call a major threat to public health. People who were more susceptible to misinformation were less likely to report complying with public health recommendations and less likely to say theyd get vaccinated (Royal Society Open Science, Vol. J Commun 65(4):619638, Bovet A, Makse HA (2019) Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. These findings set the stage for later work that tied belief in misinformation to a failure to reflect carefully on material.3. But I can. Therefore, I calculate the uncertainty in predicting each word appearance in every text through perplexity (Griffiths & Steyvers, 2004), a measure that has been used for language identification (Gamallo et al., 2016), to discern between formal and informal tweets (Gonzlez, 2015), to model childrens early grammatical knowledge (Bannard et al., 2009), measuring the distance between languages (Gamallo et al., 2017) or to assess racial disparities in automated speech recognition (Koenecke et al., 2020). Are they credible? Google Scholar, Brady WJ, Crockett MJ, Van Bavel JJ (2020) The MAD model of moral contagion: the role of motivation, attention, and design in the spread of moralized content online. (2020). 16, No. Science 359(6380):11461151, Wang WY (2017) Liar, liar pants on fire: a new benchmark dataset for fake news detection. ISSN 2662-9992 (online), The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of cognitive effort and appeal to emotions, humanities and social sciences communications, $${\mathrm{Flesch.Kincaid}}\,{\mathrm{score}}\left( {{\mathrm{FK}}} \right) = 0.39 \ast \left( {\frac{{n_w}}{{n_{st}}}} \right) + 11.8 \ast \frac{{n_{sy}}}{{n_w}} - 15.59$$, $$H = - \mathop {\sum }\limits_x p\left( {{x}} \right){\mathrm{log}}_2\,q\left( x \right)$$, $${\mathrm{Perplexity}}\left( M \right) = \tau ^{ - \mathop {\sum }\limits_x p\left( {{{\mathrm{x}}}} \right)\,{\mathrm{log}}_2\,q\left( x \right)} = 2^H$$, $${Morality}_i\left( M \right) = \frac{{{mor}_i}}{{n_{w,i}}} \ast \frac{{{neg}_i}}{{n_{w,i}}}$$, $$d_{AB} = \sqrt {\mathop {\sum}\nolimits_{i = 1}^n {\left( {e_{Ai} - e_{Bi}} \right)^2} }$$, $$d_{AB} = \frac{{\mathop {\sum }\nolimits_{{{a}} \in {{A}},\,{{b}} \in {{B}}} d\left( {a,b} \right)}}{{\left| A \right| \ast \left| B \right|}}$$, $$W\left( {C_k} \right) = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{x_i \in C_k} \left( {x_i - \mu _k} \right)^2$$, $${\mathrm{tot.withiness}} = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k W\left( {C_k} \right) = \mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k \mathop {\sum }\limits_{x_i \in C_k} \left( {x_i - \mu _k} \right)^2$$, $${\mathrm{minimize}}\left( {\mathop {\sum }\limits_{k = 1}^k W\left( {C_k} \right)} \right)$$, $$p_j\left( x \right): = \frac{{{\Bbb P}\left[ {Y = j\left| {X_1} \right. In contrast to previous measures, the technique employed to quantify morality is highly sensitive to text length (with longer texts having higher probabilities of containing moral words), therefore, I calculate the morality measure as moral words per 500 words in each text. There are different types of misinformation. However, not all misinformation is created equal. For example, in my sample, one of the highest values in negative emotions (emotion=32) is the following news from the fake news category reporting about a shooting against two police officers in France: () Her candidacy [referring to Marine Le Pen] has been an uprising against the globalist-orchestrated Islamist invasion of the EU and the associated loss of sovereignty. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, Taylor L (2020) Covid-19 misinformation sparks threats and violence against doctors in Latin America. Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), PolitiFact and Snopes. First, that it is scalable (Broniatowski et al., 2022) and, secondly, misinformation intent is better captured at the source level than at the article level (Grinberg et al., 2019). Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. To do so, I calculate a set of quantifiable characteristics that represent the content of a written text and allow us to differentiate it across categories. In this type of problem, each text in a set of news articles can be represented as a set of k features denoted by the feature vector \(f \in {\Bbb R}^k\). These results are important because the proposed fingerprints of misinformation provide grounding for the refinement of previous results and better interventions to mitigate their spread in the realm of technological companies, fact-checkers and media outlets or public policy in the light of the volume, breadth, speed and explainability challenges. Hidden Colors is a documentary about the real and untold history of people of color around the globe. Mona Sue Weissmark, part-time associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences reflects on the best advice she got:We must learn to live in doubt, yet act based on scientific thinking.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reber, R., & Schwarz, N., Effects of perceptual fluency on judgments of truth. With regard to cognitive effort, I obtained the following results. provincial or municipal governments. In this case, nw and nst act as a proxy for syntactic complexity and nsy acts as a proxy for lexical difficulty. Players assume the role of a manipulator and practice interacting with others in a social media simulation. an unbelievable amount of blustery hooplaw that is not only factually incorrect but painfully shallow and excruciatingly reaching, whats so sad about . Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:1364213649, Miller T, Howe P, Sonenberg L (2017) Explainable AI: beware of inmates running the asylum or: how i learnt to stop worrying and love the social and behavioural sciences. On the side of more positive language, I find rumors (sentiment=0.86, [CI=0.65, 1.08]) and junk science (sentiment=2.52, [CI=2.31, 2.72]). J Commun 65(4):699719, Wheeler T (2017) Using public interest algorithms to tackle the problems created by social media algorithms, Zervopoulos A, Alvanou AG, Bezas K, Papamichail A, Maragoudakis M, Kermanidis K (2020) Hong Kong protests: using natural language processing for fake news detection on twitter. Beyond the small effect, these systems rely on content or sources that have already been flagged as potential misinformation. In this paper I propose a method that is independent of network behavior, information cascades or their virality. In contrast, for content with high perplexity (perplexity=215), the probabilities per category are: factual (p=0.089, CI=[0.083, 0.096]), clickbait (p=0.194, CI=[0.186, 0.200]), conspiracy theories (P=0.091, CI=[0.088, 0.094)], fake news (p=0.098, CI=[0.094, 0.101]), hate speech (p=0.084, CI=[0.081, 0.088]), junk science (p=0.385, CI=[0.376, 0.393]) and rumor (p=0.058, CI=[0.056, 0.061]). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114(28):73137318, Article We know that our capacity for discerning between factual and false content is highly influenced by social norms (Frenda et al., 2011; Zhu et al., 2010) and moral foundations (Dehghani et al., 2016; Graham et al., 2009), defined as the interlocking sets of values, practices, institutions, and evolved psychological mechanisms that function to suppress selfishness (Graham et al., 2009, p. 1031). Chan School of Public Health. 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