Researchers measure susceptibility to fake Corona news
(WorldNews Europe)

An online survey has been launched in English and Dutch by a group of Anglo-Dutch researchers from the University of Wolverhampton who have teamed up with the Free University and Meertens Institute in the Netherlands. The team of nine includes Psychologists, Computer Science experts, Linguists and Narratologists. The research is funded by the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton and is part of a wider citizen science project called TRUTH: The Rhetoric of Untruth. Participants will receive questions about their online life during the crisis, their susceptibility to conspiracy theories and will be asked to rate the plausibility of COVID-19 related...