Sander van der Linden is Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge where he Directs the Cambridge Social Decision-Maing Lab. He is in the top 1% of the most cited social scientists worldwide and Author of Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) and The Psychology of Misinformation (2024).
In response to a recent article in The Skeptic, Professor Sander van der Linden argues that there is value and validity to the misinformation-as-virus analogy
