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When we mitigate misinformation by restricting information flow, we make a trade-off between restricting falsehoods and limiting knowledge. How can we do the most good? This paper introduces popular approaches including social constructionism, linguistics, heuristic, and empiric. Simulation allows researchers to consider information networks of differing size and connectivity. Results indicate that an empiric approach that preferentially limits falsehoods allows researchers to tune this trade off.
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Kirk, R. (2020). Mitigating Misinformation: Using Simulations to Examine the Effectiveness of Potential Strategies. In: Spohrer, J., Leitner, C. (eds) Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51057-2_27
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