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'' It's really a mess right now,'' said Lara Putnam, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh who works on DISINFORMATION in Pennsylvania.

'' Things that can break down trust began rapidly scaling over the past decade or so, whereas the things that can rebuild trust just do not scale.''

Still the search for information integrity continues.

At a conference at Stanford last year, speakers proposed redesigning online spaces to be less polarizing and instead more ''prosocial'' and collaborative.

Last month, YouTube said it was running a pilot project that would allow users to add context to videos, similar to the '' community notes '' feature on X.

'' Experts worry that peddlers of disinformation  will be able to easily bypass weak defenses to influence election results.''

The World Students Society thanks Tiffany Hsu and Stuart a Thompson.