Daisy De Windt
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Daisy De Windt
@daisydewindt.bsky.social
Director Business Development, Conceptavision | PhD Student

I help translate complex information into media that is clear, concise and digestible. My PhD project is investigating health misinformation in Australia and what we can do to help combat it.
It is incredibly sad to see cases of people dying by suicide after developing close relationships with AI chatbots, such as 14 year-old Sewell Setzer III. It seems the tech has taken a dark turn since I first used (dial up) internet at 14, back in the 1990s.
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Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen mental health harms and suicides | CNN Business
Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits alleging the artificial intelligence chatbot maker contributed to mental health crises and suicides among young people, including a case brought by ...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:08 AM
It's Media Literacy Week here in Australia! To find out more: medialiteracy.org.au/get-ready-fo...

Evidence supports media literacy as a protective factor against falling for misinformation. Similarly, health literacy has been shown to help reduce the risk of succumbing to health misinformation.
Get ready for Media Literacy Week 2025! - Media Literacy
Find out more about the range of events to help celebrate Media Literacy Week (27...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
My PhD project is investigating health misinformation in Australia. Specifically:
• The breadth of the problem
• Risk factors for susceptibility
• Educational interventions targeting susceptibilities.

This Statement provides an excellent psychological science overview: dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Hello everyone, I'm new here and am a Twitter/X refugee. I look forward to connecting with anyone interested in helping get valuable academic research out into the wider public domain, and in battling the wicked problem of disinformation.
#evidence #academia #disinformation #science #medicine
November 12, 2024 at 4:50 AM