Election officers and researchers from Arizona to Taiwan are adopting a radical playbook to cease falsehoods about voting before they unfold on-line, amid fears that conventional methods to battle misinformation are inadequate in a deadly yr for democracies round the world.
Modeled after vaccines, these campaigns — dubbed “prebunking” — expose folks to weakened doses of misinformation paired with explanations and are aimed toward serving to the public develop “mental antibodies” to acknowledge and fend off hoaxes in a heated election yr.
