Technologies to Support Critical Thinking in an Age of Misinformation (Dagstuhl Seminar 22172)

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 22172 “Technologies to Support Critical Thinking in an Age of Misinformation”. This seminar brought together experts from computer science, behavioural psychology, journalists, and policy makers to examine and define the challenges of misinformation and fake news in the internet and social networks. This included discussions of what constitutes misinformation, technological advances for both spreading and mitigating misinformation, and discussions around policies that can be created and implemented to address propagators, both active and passive, of misinformation. The goal of this report is to summarize and present the various challenges and options for the development and implementation of technologies to support critical thinking.