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They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation? (www.thestar.com)
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They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation?::Recent studies have shown teens are more susceptible than adults. It’s a problem researchers, teachers and parents are only beginning to understand.

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[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Calling them psychologists is giving them too much credit, but you're right that the companies trying to trick them are putting tons of resources into it.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very often this shit is designed by people with psychology degrees.

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought marketing and media people generally have communication degrees.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 30 points 2 years ago

User researcher is a job that’s becoming more common at tech firms, and usually requires a psychology degree or similar

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

You don't need a full penetration of psychology degrees, just a sufficient amount.

The specific field is marketing psychology, it's a subset of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology.

[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Social engineers?

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The serious stuff is increasingly nation states, and there are for sure psychologists involved in that.

The influence operation was the seventh from China that Meta has removed in the last six years. Four of them were found in the last year, said the company, which published details of the new operation as part of a quarterly security report.

The effort appeared to “learn and mimic” Russian-style influence operations, Meta said. It also appeared aimed at a broad audience. At times, posts were in Chinese on websites such as the Chinese financial forum Nanyangmoney. At other times, posts were in Russian, German, French, Korean, Thai and Welsh on sites such as Facebook and Instagram, which are banned in China.