Adam Berinsky

Adam Berinsky will work on a project examining interventions to stop or slow the spread of political misinformation. Berinsky will test the efficacy of existing approaches to combatting the spread of misinformation, such as having unlikely sources correct falsehoods. He will also examine and develop new interactive and scalable interventions to slow the spread of misinformation by leveraging advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, he will investigate the effectiveness of combining multiple interventions to evaluate whether they have greater success when bundled together. For example, combining “accuracy prompts,” which remind individuals to consider whether information is accurate before sharing it online bundled with trainings to teach people how to identify manipulation techniques.