Canaries in the Coalmine: Building Resilience to Online Misinformation among Young People in the UK

Daniel Allington, Harry Shukman, William Galinsky and Rachel Briscoe (2023): The spread of online misinformation is a key concern in a digitally-permeated society, prompting fears that engagement with it can lead, particularly among young people, to radicalisation and inter-group hate.

Canaries in the Coalmine: Building Resilience to Online Misinformation among Young People in the UK

This paper assesses the scale of the problem, and examines a range of tools and techniques intended to mitigate its impact, from online fact-checking services and content warnings to interfaith dialogue and state-mandated educational programmes. The most promising methods of confronting misinformation are likely those that engage people in the real-world and build lasting relationships across community divides beyond the internet. Interventions that take place solely online, on the other hand, are yet to deliver robust and easily scalable impacts.

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Canaries in the coalmine

Canaries in the coalmine

Building resilience to online misinformation among young people in the UK
London, 2023

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