新工具识别并评估营养错误信息的潜在危害

New Tool Spots and Evaluates Nutrition Misinformation’s Potential for Harm A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content’s risk for potential harm is being developed by a team of Uni- versity College London (UCL) research- ers. Unlike existing tools, which offer binary judgements of whether content is “true” or “false,” this first-of-its-kind tool addresses misinformation that is not overtly false but still has the potential to dangerously mislead, particularly among vulnerable groups. The tool’s developers identified that “true” or “false” assess- ments fail to capture the cumulative and contextual ways in which misleading health information can influence behav- ior and decision making. …