Prebunk
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An act of prebunking.
"[Twitter] will also publish so-called ‘prebunks’ specific to potentially misleading information on vaccines, they said."
- 1 To counter potential misinformation by warning people against it before it is disseminated.
"They predicted that the warning would work by “pre-bunking” the false information that may come someone's way (rather than debunking it afterward). […] However, if the fake petition was “pre-bunked” with a vaccine, subjects held on to their higher estimation of a scientific consensus."
Example
More examples"They predicted that the warning would work by “pre-bunking” the false information that may come someone's way (rather than debunking it afterward). […] However, if the fake petition was “pre-bunked” with a vaccine, subjects held on to their higher estimation of a scientific consensus."
Etymology
Blend of pre- + debunk. By surface analysis, pre- + bunk.
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