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Session 1: Welcome and Opening Remarks and Keynote: Understanding and Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation
Session Chair(s)
Stephen Knowles, MD, MRCP
Chief Medical Officer
Halozyme Therapeutics, United States
This will discuss the Rand lab's research agenda on COVID-19 misinformation (for papers, see https://bit.ly/3EAmr6K). Dr. Rand will describe the results of a large-scale study conducted in 16 countries and examine factors that predict susceptibility to belief in COVID-19 misinformation, as well as interventions to identify misinformation at scale and to reduce the sharing of COVID-19 misinformation on social media. Dr. Rand will also describe research (https://bit.ly/3CDVVsi) showing the power of communications from cultural elites for shaping laypeople's attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination.
Learning Objective : At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Understand factors which predict susceptibility to believe misinformation
- Identify potential interventions to reduce the sharing of misinformation
- Recognize the cultural influences that shape people’s attitudes
Speaker(s)
Understanding and Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation
David G Rand, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Erwin H. Schell Professorship & Professor of Management Science, Sloan School
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