Prebunk

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.

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The theory is that it is easier to “prebunk” disinformation before it spreads than to debunk it once it has taken hold.

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Twitter on Monday announced a new effort to preemptively debunk, or “prebunk” in Twitter parlance, some of the most commonly circulated false and misleading information about the election.

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Just as Fox News viewers were more likely to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction at the turn of the century, in our current disinformation age the lies are fed from on high before they ricochet around the internet. Exposing the people who do so in Australia, and removing them from the perch they sing from, can help collectively prebunk us.

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