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it's friday august 26th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Google ran a study using its own pre-roll ads on YouTube to try to pre-bunk people before they fall for conspiracy theories.

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Over the last several years, we've seen some moderate attempts by social media companies to combat the rampant, miss, and disinformation running wild on their platforms.

Twitter introduced labels warning when a tweet may contain disputed information. Facebook added labels

encouraging people to get official voting information in the U.S. during the 2020 election

on all relevant posts. Almost every platform continues to include labels linking to official

information about COVID-19 on any post that mentions it, and occasionally removing the most

misleading posts about the pandemic. But with many studies over the years showing that debunking

and fact-checking don't always work, and in fact sometimes make people double down on their

beliefs, some platforms are investigating additional ways that they can combat misinformation.

Enter pre-bunking.

Pre-bunking is when you attempt to safeguard people against falling for conspiracy theories and misinformation

by telling them what to look out for.

Now, it's typically not about telling them about specific conspiracy theories

or arming them with facts on particular topics, but rather more of a media literacy lesson.

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