Assessing the Evidence for Digital Interventions to Inoculate against Misinformation

Digital Technique-based Inoculation Interventions against Misinformation (DTIIMs) are promising, empirically supported game- and video-based interventions to address susceptibility to misinformation (e.g., the online game: Bad News). 

However, some research suggests DTIIMs' status as effective psychological inoculation interventions is unclear, which has implications for their development and for psychological inoculation theory itself. This presentation will detail the methods and findings of a recent systematic review that assesses the theoretical and empirical approaches of the field to determine the strength of inferences that DTIIMs are effective psychological inoculation interventions.
 

Day: Thursday, September 25, 2025

Time: 12PM EST | 6PM GMT+2

Location: Register for the Webinar HERE. 

Presenter: Dan Loughnan

Dan Loughnan is a New Zealand born PhD candidate in the communication and media
research group within the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University
(Netherlands). He has a background in film and television production that includes 15
years of extensive international work as a freelance location sound recordist. Dan’s
current focus is on the development and testing of a next generation of digital
interventions to address adolescents’ susceptibility to misinformation, beginning with a
thorough examination of the research to date.