Tag Archives: Truth

24May/26

The UBUNK Paradigm: Navigating Truth, Myth, and Endurance

Beyond Fact-Checking: How AI and Gamification are Creating a Resilient Digital Citizen

Sun, May 24 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — The modern digital landscape is overwhelmed by a flood of algorithmic misinformation, historical hoaxes, and sensationalism designed to exploit human biases and emotional reactions. Because traditional, passive fact-checking is often too slow and tedious to compete with viral lies, researchers and technologists are pivoting toward active, gamified behavioral conditioning to build societal resistance against fake news. Continue reading

26Sep/23

Donald Trump’s truth: why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research

Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol and Jana Lasser, Graz University of Technology

According to fact checkers, Donald Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. That’s around 20 a day. But, according to several opinion polls during his presidency, around 75% of Republican voters still considered Trump to be honest.

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31Jan/23

Unlike with academics and reporters, you can’t check when ChatGPT’s telling the truth

Blayne Haggart, Brock University

Of all the reactions elicited by ChatGPT, the chatbot from the American for-profit company OpenAI that produces grammatically correct responses to natural-language queries, few have matched those of educators and academics.

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