School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, 12A Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK.
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2021 Aug 19;6(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s41235-021-00323-z.
We report the results of a preregistered study that tested the effectiveness of inoculating participants against Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation. Participants in the experimental (inoculation) condition watched a video that explained common rhetorical markers of radical-Islamist and Islamophobic disinformation that had been identified in an analysis of YouTube content. The information was presented in a neutral context not involving Islam and focused on analysis of the misleading argumentation. The control group watched a video about an unrelated topic. Participants were then exposed to target videos with "gateway" content that constituted an entry point to potential Islamist or Islamophobic radicalization. Both videos contained numerous items of disinformation. Participants then answered a variety of questions such as how likely they were to share the video, their level of agreement, and their perceived accuracy of the video. Participants who had received the inoculation displayed less agreement with the video content, perceived the video as less reliable, and were less likely to share it in comparison with participants in the control group. The study provides support for the use of argument-based inoculation in combatting extremist messages.
我们报告了一项预先注册研究的结果，该研究测试了针对反伊斯兰恐惧症和激进伊斯兰主义者虚假信息对参与者进行接种的效果。实验组（接种组）的参与者观看了一段视频，该视频解释了在对 YouTube 内容进行分析后确定的激进伊斯兰主义和反伊斯兰恐惧症虚假信息的常见修辞标记。这些信息以不涉及伊斯兰教的中立语境呈现，重点是对误导性论证的分析。对照组观看了一段关于不相关主题的视频。然后，参与者观看了带有“门户”内容的目标视频，这些内容构成了潜在伊斯兰或反伊斯兰激进化的切入点。两个视频都包含了许多虚假信息。然后，参与者回答了各种问题，例如他们分享视频的可能性、他们的同意程度以及他们对视频的准确性的看法。与对照组的参与者相比，接受接种的参与者对视频内容的认同度较低，认为视频的可靠性较低，并且不太可能分享该视频。这项研究为使用基于论证的接种来对抗极端主义信息提供了支持。
