2023
- As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It, The New York Times (1 Jan 2023)
- COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence, World Extreme Medicine Podcast (2 Jan 2023)
- Climate deniers take over Elon Musk’s ‘liberated’ Twitter (in French), msnFrance (4 Jan 2023)
- Do you want to grab diapers too? To prevent the new crown, we must also prevent the “information epidemic” (in Chinese), Blue Whale Financial Reporter (4 Jan 2023)
- Sudoku in the “complexity” of the Nobel Parisi (in Italian), La Stampa (9 Jan 2023)
- Twitter has always been a hotspot for climate change misinformation. On Musk’s watch, it’s heating up, USA Today (10 Jan 2023)
- Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?, Rolling Stone (15 Jan 2023)
- How to talk to a climate denier, (Podcast) Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd (16 Jan 2023)
- Davos Special Part 3: Prof. Heidi Larson on How the Vaccine Confidence Project is Navigating a Polarized World, (Podcast) The TrustMakers – from Edelman and Advertising Week (19 Jan 2023)
- “Tracking Disinformation” – interview with Andrea Baronchelli and Max Falkenberg, (Podcast) Hot Politics, Canada’s National Observer (24 Jan 2023)
- Climate disinfo surges in denial, conspiracy comeback, Sky News (21 Jan 2023) (Global coverage across USA, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, France, The Netherlands, Pakistan, India, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and more)
- Episode 72: Fighting Against Misinformation with Sander van der Linden, (Podcast) Opinion Science (30 Jan 2023)
- Egg shortages, Vaccines and 5G: Why Conspiracy Theories Are on the Rise, Newsweek (8 Feb 2023)
- Vaccine hesitancy is associated with interacting with low-quality information online, study finds, MSN.com (9 Feb 2023)
- Social intelligence at Fabbrica Floridi: how to use social networks to combat educational poverty and the phenomenon of NEETs, Forbes (13 Feb 2023)
- Google expands its ‘prebunking’ campaign to fight fake news in Europe, Euronews (14 Feb 2023) (Global coverage across Sweden, Brazil, Albania, Bangladesh, India, USA, Nepal, North Macedonia, , Canada, Malaysia and more)
- Prebunking: The new tactic to help people spot fake news, Sky News (15 Feb 2023)
- Live from CROI 2023 – Heidi Larson: Rebuilding mutual trust between science & society, (Podcast) A Shot in the Arm (22 Feb 2023)
- Foolproof – how misinformation works, and how to counter it, Financial Times (22 Feb 2023)
- There are more and more climate skeptics on Twitter, Il Giornale della Protezione Civile (26 Feb 2023)
2022
- How to fight fake health news, (Podcast) People Fixing the World, BBC News World Service (25 January 2022)
- The Real Goal of Kremlin Disinformation Isn’t What You Think, Politico (22 March 2022)
- The story of the war and fake news (in Italian), Unomattina (5 April 2022)
- Bucha and denial. Quattrociocchi explains the media short circuit (in Italian), formiche (10 April 2022)
- Timely “How Civil Wars Start”, (Blog) Navy Reads (21 April 2022)
- Because social networks don’t help the climate (in Italian) by Jaime D’Alessandro , la Repubblica (23 April 2022)
- Don’t call them anti-vaxxers – that just further erodes people’s trust by Gary Finnegan, The Guardian (25 April 2022)
- What is happening on social networks in Italy (in Italian), la Repubblica (25 April 2022)
- Infodemic: a new challenge for public health (in Italian, via subscription only), Le Scienza (27 April 2022)
- Can people be ‘inoculated’ against false news?, The Journal (1 May 2022)
- Research exposes long-term failure of Russian propaganda in Ukraine’s Donbas region (News Release), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2 May 2022)
- Why do so many Americans distrust science?, by Patrick Boyle, Association of American Medical Colleges (4 May 2022)
- Sander van der Linden on Behavioral Science in the Wild, (YouTube) BEAR – Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman (9 May 2022)
- A vaccine for the times?, Medical Forum (19 May 2022)
- Computer games made by researchers want to ‘vaccinate’ against fake news – try it here (in Danish), by Frederik Guy Hoff Sonne, Videnskab.dk (19 May 2022)
- Conspiracy is rampant online, how can we defend ourselves from fake news? Fabiana Zollo at the Cicap Fest (in Italian, YouTube), Mattino di Padova (1 Jun 2022) (also featured in la Nuova di Venezia e Mestre)
- Trento Economy Festival: Without good information there is no democracy (in Italian), La Voce del Trentino (5 Jun 2022)
- Jon Roozenbeek on Ukraine and Disinformation, The Cognitive Crucible podcast: #103 (5 Jul 2022)
- Building Back Trust in Science: Community-Centered Solutions (YouTube – 1hr6mins viewing time) American Psychological Association (13 Jul 2022)
- Helping public health agencies improve emergency risk communication, The Harvard Gazette (15 Jul 2022)
- The climate deniers, those who say: “It’s hot in summer” (in Italian / online translation), la Repubblica (27 July 2022)
- Internet Festival 2022: digital innovation “welcomes” imperfection (in Italian / online translation), La Nazione (1 Aug 2022)
- The epidemic has proved to be the training ground for large-scale disinformation efforts (in Polish / online translation), Dzien Dobry Białystok (16 Aug 2022)
- Google is trying out ‘pre-bunking’ to counter misinformation, NBC News (24 Aug 2022) (Same research study also covered in stories by The Conversation, msn.com, Yahoo! News Taiwan, The New York Times and more)
- Google to launch anti-disinformation campaign in eastern Europe, Yahoo! News (25 Aug 2022) (covered globally in The Indian Express, Rappler (Philippines), Euronews (France), Yahoo! Finance (US), Kompas.com (Indonesia), Новое Время (Ukraine), 3D News Daily Digital Digest (Russia), Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), Infobae (Argentina) and more)
- Google to run ads educating users about fake news, BBC (25 Aug 2022)
- Google and academic research finds brief videos teaching critical-thinking skills can inoculate viewers against disinformation, msn.com (27 Aug 2022)
- Polio is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened, by Maryn McKenna, WIRED (24 Aug 2022)
- Interview with Dr. Ed Pertwee: vaccine hesitancy and lessons learnt, European Science-Media Hub (24 Aug 2022)
- Just How Much Did the Benghazi Attack Affect the Outcome of the 2016 Election?, by Ethan Corin, Lit Hub (7 Sept 2022)
- Ukraine: Google’s war against fake news, Ambito (7 Sept 2022) (also by ANSA.it)
- Jon Roozenbeek: How to Pre-Bunk Misinformation and Disinformation, Tech Policy Leaders Podcast, WashingTech (12 Sept 2022)
- Tools to prevent misinformation from spreading, Scripps National News (segment aired across multiple US TV stations) (12 Sept 2022)
- Fake news COVID, Savoia (Harvard): “It is an industry with enormous profits, it must be stopped” (in Italian / online translation), adnkronos (14 Sept 2022)
- Understanding vaccine hesitancy, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance (15 Sept 2022)
- Psychology Inoculation Against Misinformation with Dr Jon Roozenbeek, (Podcast) ‘Ology’ with Megan Reisinger (15 Sept 2022)
- Next Generation Fest, registrations are underway. The Pisa Internet Festival (in Italian / online translation), la Repubblica (15 Sept 2022)
- Scientists against “media bulimia”: analyze the role of the internet in spreading fake news on Covid vaccines and climate change (in Italian / online translation), Corriere della Sera (16 Sept 2022)
- Covid will be a leading cause of death in the U.S. indefinitely, whether or not the pandemic is ‘over’, NBC News (20 Sep 2022)
- A psychological inoculation to counter “fake news”, Le Monde (20 Sept 2022)
- Polio is the next front in the disinformation wars, Politico (20 Sept 2022)
- Prebunking Misinformation with Dr Jon Roozenbeek, (Podcast) High School History Recap (23 Sept 2022)
- When algorithms fail, they are often just misinformed, Breaking Latest News (23 Sept 2022) (original Italian feature article in Il Sole 24 Ore by Cristina Da Rold)
- Social balance at the end of the election campaign: the big absentees were the fake news, Rai News (23 Sept 2022)
- Fake news? The younger ones are already developing “antibodies”, the problem is the more mature, Rai News (8 Oct 2022)
- The sentiment hidden in the data, with Fabiana Zollo (in Italian), Radio CICAP (13 Oct 2022)
- Russian propaganda has fooled the Kremlin more than Ukraine and the rest of Europe, UAinFocus (20 Oct 2022)
- Prebunking: Staying ahead of the curve on misinformation, OECD The Forum Network (24 Oct 2022)
- Academic and nonprofit interests hope to make Americans impervious to misinformation, VPM/npr/PBS (1 November 2022)
- Citing Climate Consensus Still Best Bet Against Doubt and Dismissal, Study Finds, Daily Kos (1 November 2022)
- “Possibility of a true scientific discovery”: US increases investigations into UFOs, France24 (2 November 2022) (also in Media Indonesia, Yahoo! Spain, CânTho Online – Vietnam, Pledge Times – India, DNYNZ – USA and msn)
- Innovation, Quattrociocchi (Sapienza): “Social networks have changed information in an epochal way” (In Italian), The World News (3 Nov 2022)
- Misinformation Experiment Has Potential to ‘Inoculate’ Millions of Social Media Users, Good News Network (6 Nov 2022)
- COVID Communication Often Failed: How Health Policy Makers Can Do Better, Scientific American (15 Nov 2022)
- Climate crisis, research: increasingly shared denialist tweets. The defining role of right-wing accounts. Corriere della Sera (24 Nov 2022)
- Climate change, increasingly divisive of social media (in Italian), Rai News (24 Nov 2022)
- Researchers point to increased polarization around climate change on social media, City University of London (25 Nov 2022)
- Climate change, online skepticism increases, Il Mattino di Padova (26 Nov 2022), (also in Venezia Today, Corriere del Ticino, and Tiscali innovation)
- Polarization on Twitter about climate change consolidates at COP26, finds study (in Portuguese), Folha de S. Paulo (28 Nov 2022)
- Thus the far right fuels skepticism on Twitter, la Repubblica (29 Nov 2022) (also featured in La Stampa)
- #ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried, The Guardian (2 Dec 2022)
- Climate-sceptic tweets surge after Musk’s Twitter takeover, The Times (2 Dec 2022)
- Twitter now full of climate misinformation, geo.tv (7 Dec 2022)
- Social media, that’s why they are worth so much, 30science.com (12 Dec 2022)
- Climate fantasies on Twitter (in German), Frankfurter Rundschau (15 Dec 2022)
- Climate disinformation is booming on Twitter (in German), klimareporter (17 Dec 2022)
- Vaccination rates are falling, and it’s not just the COVID-19 vaccine that people are refusing, nature outlook (19 Dec 2022)
- Books of 2023: Prince Harry’s Spare kicks of Publishing bonanza, BBC News (27 Dec 2022)
2021
- Summit to build global confidence in vaccines to be convened by the UK Government, G7 UK (15 May 2021)
- LSHTM to play leading role in first ever Global Vaccine Confidence Summit, LSHTM (17 May 2021)
- From vaccines to the climate crisis. IRIS is born, the Italian-English algorithm for mapping citizens’ reactions on social media (in Italian) by Jaime D’Alessandro, la Repubblica (3 June 2021)
- World-leading experts commit to building vaccine confidence at UK hosted Global Vaccine Confidence Summit, UK Cabinet Office (2 June 2021)
- Fabiana Zollo at the Global Vaccine Confidence Summit by Joangela Ceccon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (14 June 2021)
- The Covid Files, The Idea (Series 4), BBC Sounds (30 Nov 2021 – available until Mon 16th May 2022)
- In Conversation – Sir Philip Campbell & Professor Heidi Larson, PhD, Springer Nature Group (14 Dec 2021)
- The best way to deal with Covid myths this Christmas? Pre-bunk rather than debunk by Sander van der Linden, The Guardian (23 December 2021)