Combating Distrust Online: New GW Study Explains Why Current Messaging Efforts May Not Be Effective (George Washington University)

George Washington University: Combating Distrust Online: New GW Study Explains Why Current Messaging Efforts May Not Be Effective. “New research led by the George Washington University finds that current mitigation efforts to combat distrust online may not be effective because organizations and governments tackling distrust are only targeting one topic and only one geographical scale. The study shows that online distrust has become a ‘glocal’ phenomenon, meaning that it is spreading with different topics lumped together and mixing both local and global interests.”