Earlier in the year the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published a report:
Bateman, J. & Jackson, D. (2024). Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide, which they describe as "A high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation."
I'm not sure this reveals anything startlingly new, but there could be some research that you haven't come across previously. It contains what they call "case studies" (actually, strategies that might hinder the flow of disinformation). They rate each of these as to "How much is known?" "How effective does it seem?" and "How easily does it scale?".
Media Literacy education (also known as information literacy, I would suggest!) rates "Significant" for the first two, and "Difficult" for the third question: which is probably fair enough, but it would be rather less difficult if Governments paid more attention to it.
Go to https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/01/31/countering-disinformation-effectively-evidence-based-policy-guide-pub-91476
Photo by Sheila Webber: Daffodils, March 2024
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