August 26, 2022

Fri. 08/26 - Prebunking Conspiratorial Thinking

17 minutes

Google ran a study using its own pre-roll ads to try to prebunk people before they fall for conspiracy theories. Plus, scientists have found the first-ever evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet’s atmosphere beyond our solar system. And the curious case of the one song that used to crash any laptop it played on.

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Links:

Can a YouTube ad change your mind about disinformation? (The Verge)

Google is trying out ‘pre-bunking’ in an effort to counter misinformation (NBC News)

YouTube: how a team of scientists worked to inoculate a million users against misinformation (The Conversation)

NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere (NASA)

JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time (Syfy Wire)

Astronomers see carbon dioxide on planet outside solar system for first time (The Harvard Gazette)

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (The Old New Thing, DevBlogs)

Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops (The Register)

Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives (TechSpot)

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August 26, 2022

Fri. 08/26 - Prebunking Conspiratorial Thinking

17 minutes

Sponsors:

Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews