#Misinformation

Most anti-misinformation tools target fake news. Films, series and podcasts blend facts with creative license, and the brain does not always tell them apart: people are 40% more likely to believe a false claim when it arrives visually, and once absorbed it keeps influencing them about half of the time even after a correction.

Context

Work carried out at the BISITE research group (University of Salamanca) within the TRUESTORIES project (CPP2021-008358), funded by MICIU/AEI and the European Union (NextGenerationEU/PRTR), and published at DCAI 2025, the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence: AI-Powered Ontology-Based Architecture for Misinformation Detection in Fiction Works.