How to talk to your loved ones about misinformation

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Misinformation and disinformation undermine democracy by making it hard for people to make informed choices. It's also used to divide communities, scapegoat vulnerable populations and erode trust. Research shows people trust information more when it comes from sources or cultural contexts they're familiar with. This election season, help counter misinformation in your community by having conversations with your friends and family.

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0:00.0	JD Bants and Tim Walls are squaring off in their first and only debate on Tuesday.
0:06.0	The NPR Politics Podcast has you covered with all the news and analysis ahead of the
0:11.0	Vice Presidential debate.
0:12.0	Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast wherever you get your podcast.
0:16.0	You're listening to Life Kit
0:21.0	from NPR.
0:23.0	Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
0:27.0	When was the last time you tried to talk to a friend or a family member
0:30.0	about something they said about the world that you knew to be factually inaccurate.
0:35.0	In other words, misinformation.
0:37.0	How did it go?
0:39.0	If not so well, don't feel bad.
0:42.0	These conversations are tough. I think if someone really
0:45.5	cares about the piece of misinformation and if they're like deeply embedded into either
0:51.5	some kind of conspiratorial narrative or if it really aligns with
0:55.3	their identity it can be quite challenging.
0:58.0	That's Professor Brian Eswire Thompson.
1:00.1	She's the Director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab
1:02.7	at Northeastern University.
1:04.4	And she says, we are all vulnerable to misinformation.
1:07.8	Yeah, you too.
1:09.5	We just don't have the time, the cognitive resources,
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