Headline, August 11 2024/ ''' EXPERTS -DISINFORMATION- EXEMPTS '''

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! FIRST AND FOREMOST ! : THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY thanks most humbly and sincerely the students of America for their support. !WOW! is the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student of U.S. and the world.

In Fullness of Time, Esteemed Engineer Founder Salar Khan Yusafzai and team, and the students of America should be mulling, researching and planning for a  Global Elections on and for !WOW!.

Election Plans, Timelines, Mechanisms, Structures, A.I., Formats should transcend every country's borders, and the entire globe. The Stepping Stone strategy needs to be thought out, planned and adopted.

Great Students, and Great Partner countries are a key to The World Students Society ambitions to succeed in Global Elections and most importantly, peacefully and lovingly help transform the world.

'' DISINFORMATION EXPERTS' PROBLEM " : ENDING IT. Even committed warriors feel overwhelmed by the amount of false content.

Holding the line against misinformation and disinformation is demoralizing and sometimes dangerous work, requiring an unusual degree of optimism and doggedness. Increasingly, however, even the most committed warriors are feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of false and misleading content online.

Researchers have learned a great deal about the misinformation problems over the past decade :

They know what types of toxic content are most common, the motivations and mechanisms that help it spread and who it often targets. The question that remains is how to stop it.

To fight disinformation in a chaotic election year, Ruth Quint, a volunteer for a nonpartisan civic group in Pennsylvania, is relying on tactics both extensively studied and frequently deployed. Many of them, however, may also be futile.

She has posed online tutorials for identifying fake social media accounts, created videos debunking conspiracy theories, flagged toxic content to a collaborative database in the United States and even participated in a pilot project that responded to misleading narratives by using artificial intelligence.

The problem : '' I don't have any idea if it's working or not working,'' said Ms. Quint, the co-president and webmaster of the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh, her home of five decades. '' I just know this is what I feel like I should be doing.''

A critical mass of research now suggests that tools such as fact checks, warning labels, prebunking and media literacy are less effective and expansive than imagined, especially as they move from pristine academic experiments into the messy, fast-changing public sphere.

A MEGASTUDY conducted last year - the largest ever for testing interventions, with more than 33,000 participants - found mixed results. Interventions like warning labels and digital literacy training improved the ability of participants to judge true or false headlines only about 5 to 10 percent.

Those results are better than nothing, its authors said, but it pales in comparison to the scale of digital misinformation. '' I find it hard to say that these initiatives have had a lot of success,'' said Chico Q. Camargo, a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Exeter who has argued that disinformation research needs reform.

Political experts worry that disinformation peddlers, equipped with increasingly sophisticated schemes, will be able to easily bypass weak defenses to influence election results - an increasingly urgent concern, as voters around the world head to the polls in hotly contested elections.

In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Ms. Quint said that her efforts to educate audiences about common targets for disinformation - such as mailing voting - once garnered tens of thousands of views on social media.

But similar content now struggles to gain traction as platforms bury political posts. Seemingly neutral concepts - right and wrong, true and false - have become political minefields.

Many voters, other than the most critically engaged, are mentally checking out.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Disinformation, Social Media, Research, Solutions and the Future continues as The World Students Society goes up the learning curve for Global Elections on !WOW!.

With most respectful dedication to Global Leaders, Disinformation Experts, the Global Founder Framers of !WOW!, Social Media, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the World.

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