Researchers then gave people a series of claims and found that those who watched the videos were significantly better at distinguishing false information from accurate information. It’s an approach called “pre-bunking” and it builds on years of research into an idea known as inoculation theory that suggests exposing people to how misinformation works, using harmless, fictional examples, can boost their defenses to false claims. With the findings in hand, Google plans to roll out a series of pre-bunking videos soon in Eastern Europe focused on scapegoating, which can be seen in much of the misinformation about Ukrainian refugees.
The 113-million-year-old tracks were uncovered at Dinosaur Valley State Park, and believed to belong to two different specifies of dinosaur, Arocanthosaurus and Sauroposeidon.
Ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will go to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university's schools of government and public health. The Democrat will teach classes on leadership and public service.
Record monsoon rains were causing a "catastrophe of epic scale", Pakistan's climate change minister said Wednesday, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June.
The latest fatal accident at a company's premises brings the number of workplace deaths in Singapore to 34 so far this year.
The United States on Wednesday responded to Iran's suggestions on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal as momentum builds to bring back the landmark agreement trashed by former president Donald Trump.
Channel says move by Adani group ‘was executed without any input from, conversation with, or consent of the NDTV founders’
Thousands of Rohingya refugees held "Genocide Remembrance Day" rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar.
Nobody benefits from a zero-sum game of animosity over the issue, said the Singapore Buddhist Federation.
South Asian country becomes third one this year to seek IMF assistance after Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Elon Musk's lawyers jumped Wednesday on the revelations of a Twitter whistleblower to try to force the platform to surrender vast amounts of information for their fight to cancel the billionaire's buyout bid.
More than 20,000 people have flocked to an Iranian museum showcasing renowned Western artists' works, some for the first time — part of a treasure trove amassed before the Islamic Revolution.
Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA's most powerful rocket ever.
An Indian billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to buy a broadcaster seen as the last major critical voice on television, stoking fears about media freedom in the world's largest democracy.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that most Americans trying to pay off university loans will get $10,000 forgiven in a bid to address the decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country.
China is easing its tight restrictions on visas after it largely suspended issuing them to students and others more than two years ago at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, promising Wednesday fresh steps to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record.
With full regalia, military honors and a skywriting squad, President Jair Bolsonaro presided over a lavish gala Tuesday for the embalmed heart of Emperor Pedro I, who declared Brazil's independence from Portugal 200 years ago.
The leaders of Canada and Germany signed a green hydrogen deal on Tuesday, laying a path for a transatlantic supply chain as Europe seeks to lessen its dependence on Russian energy.
With a possible COVID-19 wave coming at the year end, Singapore will offer booster shots to children aged five to 11 in the fourth quarter of the year.
Friends and former colleagues hailed storied Vietnam War photographer Tim Page as a "mentor" and an "amazing talent" on Thursday, after he passed away in Australia aged 78.
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