Prebunking Disinformation to Build Societal Resilience

And finally, it takes resilience. As technology evolves, we need to build up societal immunity around information manipulation.

Because research has shown that prebunking is much more successful than debunking.

Prebunking is basically the opposite of debunking.

In short, prevention is preferable to cure.

Perhaps if you think of information manipulation as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold, that is debunking.

It is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.

Prebunking is the same approach. Because disinformation relies on people passing it on to others, it is essential that people know what malign information's influence is and what the techniques are that are behind it.

And as the knowledge goes up, our chances of being influenced goes down.

And that builds up the society resilience that we will need.