Crowd-Checking Online Misinformation Might Actually Work, Research Shows

About this episode

The episode discusses the effectiveness of crowd-checking in combating online misinformation through a conversation with researcher Huaxia Rui.

The decision by X, formerly known as Twitter, to implement Community Notes, a peer-based system for flagging misinformation, met with initial skepticism and even suspicion. On this edition of Update-1, NPC Broadcast Podcast Team Co-Chair Adam Konowe speaks with Huaxia Rui, the Xerox professor of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. A study by Rui and his peers suggests that so-called “crowd-checking” does have a chilling effect on authors' intent on misleading the public. And that in turn has implications for journalists, communicators and the general public.

People in this episode

Host: Adam Konowe

Guest: Huaxia Rui

Topics covered

• online misinformation
• crowd-checking
• Community Notes
• journalism
• public communication

Keywords

• misinformation
• crowd-checking
• Community Notes
• journalism
• public communication
• X
• Twitter

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Rochester, Twitter, Simon Business School

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