TY - JOUR
T1 - Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy
AU - Lewandowsky, Stephan
AU - Ecker, Ullrich K.H.
AU - Cook, John
AU - van der Linden, Sander
AU - Roozenbeek, Jon
AU - Oreskes, Naomi
N1 - Funding Information:
SL acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant 101020961 PRODEMINFO), the Humboldt Foundation through a research award, the Volkswagen Foundation (grant “Reclaiming individual autonomy and democratic discourse online”), and from UK Research and Innovation (through the Centre of Excellence, REPHRAIN). UKHE acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council (grant FT190100708). JR acknowledges support from the British Academy (#PF21-210010), Google Jigsaw, IRIS Coalition ( UK Government , #SCH-00001-3391), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, #ES/V011960/1), and the Global Engagement Center (US Department of State).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. We review the evidence for widespread disinformation campaigns that are undermining this shared knowledge. We establish a common pattern by which science and scientists are discredited and how the most recent frontier in those attacks involves researchers in misinformation itself. We list several ways in which psychology can contribute to countermeasures.
AB - Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate. We review the evidence for widespread disinformation campaigns that are undermining this shared knowledge. We establish a common pattern by which science and scientists are discredited and how the most recent frontier in those attacks involves researchers in misinformation itself. We list several ways in which psychology can contribute to countermeasures.
KW - Attacks on scientists
KW - Climate science
KW - Integrity of democracy
KW - Misinformation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85175856404
U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101711
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101711
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37944324
AN - SCOPUS:85175856404
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 54
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
M1 - 101711
ER -