{"id":13197,"date":"2024-02-02T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/young-people-in-the-uk-are-you-exposed-to-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:37:15","slug":"young-people-in-the-uk-are-you-exposed-to-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/young-people-in-the-uk-are-you-exposed-to-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people in the UK: are you exposed to conspiracy theories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We want to hear from young people and those who work with them about the misinformation and divisive narratives they are seeing <\/p>\n<p>Following research finding that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/jan\/16\/third-of-uk-teenagers-believe-climate-change-exaggerated-report-shows\">a third of UK teenagers believe the climate crisis<\/a> is \u201cexaggerated\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2024\/feb\/01\/gen-z-boys-and-men-more-likely-than-baby-boomers-to-believe-feminism-harmful-says-poll\">a backlash against feminism among young men<\/a>, we want to learn more about the spread of misinformation and divisive narratives among young people in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/16\/teens-online-conspiracies-study\">teenagers were significantly more likely<\/a> to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, likely underscoring the impact of social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/02\/young-people-in-the-uk-are-you-exposed-to-conspiracy-theories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b5eebaa43c58baf1a7048cd992dd5a7cbca666b8\/0_142_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=979e7711947d4a5372d170c919ab7aad\" title=\"Young people in the UK: are you exposed to conspiracy theories?\" \/>We want to hear from young people and those who work with them about the misinformation and divisive narratives they are seeing<br \/>\nFollowing research finding that a third of UK teenagers believe the climate crisis is \u201cexaggerated\u201d and a backlash against feminism among young men, we want to learn more about the spread of misinformation and divisive narratives among young people in the UK.<br \/>\nIn the US, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that teenagers were significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, likely underscoring the impact of social media. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to hear from young people and those who work with them about the misinformation and divisive narratives they are seeing Following research finding that a third of UK teenagers believe the climate crisis is \u201cexaggerated\u201d and a backlash against feminism among young men, we want to learn more about the spread of misinformation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/young-people-in-the-uk-are-you-exposed-to-conspiracy-theories\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young people in the UK: are you exposed to conspiracy theories?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}