Why people believe things that aren’t true, and what to do about it

Description

An event organised by the Complicity Studies research network.

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Speaker

Jon Roozenbeek (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

Jon Roozenbeek’s research focuses on misinformation, vaccine hesitancy, online extremism and inoculation theory. As part of his research, Jon co-developed the award-winning fake news games Bad News, Harmony Square and Go Viral. Jon is also interested in social media research, agent-based modelling and natural language processing.

About the speaker

Jon Roozenbeek is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, University of Cambridge.

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