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Most fact-checking focuses on social media, yet misinformation can also spread quickly through messaging apps like Whatsapp. Personalised push notifications – sent directly to your phone – could help.
Popes wear white to represent Christlike purity and red to symbolise compassion.
Empowering current and future generations to detect and dismiss false and misleading information will be pivotal in developing a democracy resilient to the threat of online misinformation.
The majority of those punished under the laws to combat false information are opposition politicians or journalists.
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Lecturer: Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer & PhD Candidate in Health Psychology, McGill University
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Visiting Researcher & Co-Director Chevening African Media Freedom Fellowship, University of Westminster
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Director, Technology, Media, and Communications specialization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Professor of Early Modern Art History, History of Art, The University of Edinburgh
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PhD Candidate at the News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. Researcher in journalism, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
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Reader/ Associate professor in Media Psychology, University of Salford
