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A new project funded by the Institute of Data, Democracy and Politics will look into the spread of misinformation in the Vietnamese American community.
The study lead by PhD students Sarah Nguyen and Rachel Moran will take a closer look at misinformation in the non-English speaking Vietnamese population. Prior studies focused primarily on English-speakers and left fake news in the limited English-proficient community unchecked, according to the Nguyen and Moran.
The study announced by the Center for an Informed Public will look at the role of media influencers, identify prominent fake news stories and the role of Vietnamese-language fact checking.
The authors also hope to develop strategies to counter the misinformation.
As AsAmNews previously reported, groups such as Viet Fact Check have also recognized the role misinformation played in the 2020 Presidential elections. The organization launched in August and continued beyond the November elections. It provided bilingual information in the hopes of stopping the spread of the bad information.
“Being in the Silicon Valley, I spent 15 years of my career getting people to click on things, so I understand the mechanisms,” Nick Nguyen said. “I could clearly see the damage.”
You can email the project leads of the latest study at [email protected] and [email protected].
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