Early morning hour and evening usage habits increase misinformation-spread: This study finds that X night owls to post more mis and disinformation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-69447-8

11 Comments

  1. I’d be interested to see this study done on Reddit. Seems to be this site is coming close to being a conspiracist hub too.

  2. I wonder how much time zone differences have to do with that. A morning moscow-time posting to a profile with ‘NYC’ as their hometown would look like its coming from a night owl.

  3. averagelatinxenjoyer on

    >> potentially disinformative content

    This pretty much sums up the study. Emphasis on “potentially”.

    >> higher exposure to COVID-19 misinformation has been linked to increased mistrust in information and to lower confidence in judging its veracity

    Yeah plenty of misinformation originated from official sources. Which is exactly because the regulation of misinformation is incredibly opinionated and probably not a good idea. 

    How about funding better less corrupted education free and for all? That could give people actually a toolset to navigate the Information space on their own, but it would also lead to a couple of uncomfortable questions along the line 

  4. Doesn’t early morning and at night just mean people using it outside of daytime work hours?