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Research and tools on climate and societal disinformation, psychological inoculation, prebunking, and fact-checking

Disinformation & Inoculation

Research and tools on climate and societal disinformation, psychological inoculation, prebunking, and fact-checking

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How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy

Leading researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley warn in Science about a new escalation in information warfare: coordinated AI agent swarms that autonomously infiltrate communities and fabricate consensus, threatening democratic processes worldwide.

COMPETITIONS

ClimateCheck@SDP 2025: Advancing Scientific Fact-Checking of Climate Claims

The first ClimateCheck shared task at SDP 2025 challenged participants to build systems for scientific fact-checking of climate claims, with tasks focusing on abstract retrieval and claim verification against a corpus of 394,269 climate science publications.

COMPETITIONS

ClimateCheck 2026: Expanding Scientific Fact-Checking with Disinformation Narrative Classification

Building on the success of ClimateCheck 2025, the 2026 edition expands to include disinformation narrative classification using the CARDS taxonomy, with substantially more training data and a focus on sustainable, real-world NLP systems.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Bridging Social Media and Science: The ClimateCheck Dataset for Fact-Checking Climate Claims

The ClimateCheck dataset bridges the gap between public discourse and scientific evidence by linking social media claims about climate change to relevant scholarly articles, facilitating automated fact-checking and evidence-based public dialogue.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Efficient Climate Claim Verification: Fine-Tuned BERT Models Outperform Large Language Models

A new study demonstrates that fine-tuned BERT models achieve competitive results with large language models for climate claim verification while processing claims 11-380 times faster, offering a more sustainable and practical solution for real-time fact-checking.

RESEARCH PAPERS

The Fact-Checking Paradox: When Truth Wins But Society Loses

New research reveals a troubling paradox: fact-checking demonstrably improves belief accuracy, yet can simultaneously reduce overall social welfare through controversy costs. This analysis explores the implications for information policy and democratic discourse.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Psychological Inoculation Improves Resilience Against Vaccine Misinformation

Can a 15-minute online game make people resilient against vaccine misinformation? Three preregistered experiments with 2,326 participants show that teaching manipulation technique recognition through gamified inoculation significantly improves detection of manipulative content — without making people more suspicious of reliable information.

TOOLS

Fact Checking Climate Claims with Open Source Models

Climate+Tech FactChecker takes a major step toward democratizing climate fact-checking by integrating Ollama, enabling deployment of powerful open source language models for transparent and customizable verification of climate claims.

TOOLS

Climate+Tech FactChecker: Fighting Climate Misinformation with Open Source AI

Climate+Tech launches an open source AI fact-checking system that combines multiple AI models to evaluate climate claims against scientific sources, achieving 85% agreement with expert consensus.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs through Dialogues with AI

Costello, Pennycook, and Rand's peer-reviewed Science study found that personalized, evidence-based AI dialogues durably reduced belief in conspiracy theories by about 20% on average, without reducing belief in true conspiracies, and with 99.2% of a sampled set of the AI's factual claims independently verified as true.

PROJECTS

Climate and Political Fact-Checking Research & Development Collaboration

Building a collaborative research community to advance AI-powered climate and political fact-checking through interdisciplinary partnerships and open science.

SOLUTIONS

AI Tools for Society: Fact-Checking, Democracy & Climate Communication

Open-source AI tools designed for fact-checking, strengthening democratic discourse, and improving climate communication.

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Resources related to Disinformation & Inoculation

How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy

ClimateCheck@SDP 2025: Advancing Scientific Fact-Checking of Climate Claims

ClimateCheck 2026: Expanding Scientific Fact-Checking with Disinformation Narrative Classification

Bridging Social Media and Science: The ClimateCheck Dataset for Fact-Checking Climate Claims

Efficient Climate Claim Verification: Fine-Tuned BERT Models Outperform Large Language Models

The Fact-Checking Paradox: When Truth Wins But Society Loses

Psychological Inoculation Improves Resilience Against Vaccine Misinformation

Fact Checking Climate Claims with Open Source Models

Climate+Tech FactChecker: Fighting Climate Misinformation with Open Source AI

Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs through Dialogues with AI

Climate and Political Fact-Checking Research & Development Collaboration

AI Tools for Society: Fact-Checking, Democracy & Climate Communication