ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the evidence about pre-bunking and debunking interventions. It also analyses how such interventions and their practical applications can be implemented in complex information strategies, related to fact-checking and media and information literacy. It reviews the types of impediments or barriers that emerge due to resistance to technological tools or societal contexts. Finally, this chapter considers how debunking approaches should also consider the consolidation or recovery of trust in factually correct information that may easily be dismissed as mis- or disinformation. Several concrete solutions are suggested to enhance trust in reliable information rather than lower the acceptance of disinformation.
