In the age of viral content and fast and furious social media community, dissinformation and mission, including about Health Matters, Are Sp pre -predicting More Widely Than Ever. Why is this the case exactly, and How can we read to spot inaccureate and Even Malicious Health Information? WHY DO WE FALL SO EASILY FOR FALSE HEALTH INFO, AND How Can We Update Our Mistaken Beliefs? These are sum of the Questions This Episode Aims To ANSWER.

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NOWADAYS, THANKS TO THE WIDESPREAD AGAILITY OF INTERNET ACCESS, ALMOST ANY PIECE OF INFORMATION WE MAY WANT IS JUS ONE CLICK AWAY. While This Is, By and Large, A Positive Development, It Can Also Mean That We Become Expose To Untrustworthy, Unchecked Information on Any Topics, Including Health.

ACCORDING TO A REPORT ISSUED BY THE INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT (IPIE) IN 2024, COMMUNICATION EXPERTS ARE CURRENTLY MOST CONCERNED “ABUT THE THREATS TO THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT POSED BY THE OWNERS OF SOCIAL MEDIUM PLATFORMS.

Such Platforms regularly circulates to varied array of videos, articles, and posts on topics including health. However, in the absence of Strict Rules and Regulations Around the Information Shared on Social Media, There is a Clear Danger That at Least Sub of What We See Shared Shared Online Amounts to Misionation Or Even Disinformation.

MISSFORMATION WHEN WHEN COMMUNICATION IS LADEN WITH INACCURACIES, EITHER BACOUSE THE ORIGINAL INFORMATION WAS MIS INTERPRETED OR MISUNDERSTOOD, OR SELECHE SUBEONE PICKED UP AT PIECE OF ERRONEOUS INFORMATION BY MISKE, AND KEPT SHARING IT.

DISSINCATION IS AN EVEN MORE CONCERNING Phenomenon. It Occurs When A actor Disseminates Fake Information on Purpose, with the Goal of Manipulating The Audience To Support A Hidden Agenda.

In this episode of In conversationwe look at Why Health Misionation and Dissinformation Spred, How We Can Id Identify and Dissinformation, and What It Takes For People To Update Their ESIWS AFTER ESY HAV ASSIMILATED INCORRECT INFORMATION.

Our Special Guest Is Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky,Chair in Cognitive Psychology at The School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and Project Lead of Prodeminfo (Protection the democratic information space in Europe) AT Potsdam University in Germany.

Prof. Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist with an interst in computer modeling Who has extensively studied decision-making processes, the persistent of missionation in society, The Ways in which myths and mission Believe in turn out to be false.

We Also Hear from Our Own Trusted Expert, Dr. Jenny Yu, Chief Health Officer AT Medical News Today and HealthlineAdvising on Key Strategies to Reure We Are Accessing the Most Accurate and Trustworthy Sources of Health Information.

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