Google ran a study using its own pre-roll ads to try to pre*bunk people before they fall for conspiracy theories. Plus, scientists have found the first-ever evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet’s atmosphere beyond our solar system. And the curious case of the one song that used to crash any laptop it played on.*

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Links:

• Can a YouTube ad change your mind about disinformation? (The Verge)
• Google is trying out ‘pre-bunking’ in an effort to counter misinformation (NBC News)
• YouTube: how a team of scientists worked to inoculate a million users against misinformation (The Conversation)
• NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere (NASA)
• JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time (Syfy Wire)
• Astronomers see carbon dioxide on planet outside solar system for first time (The Harvard Gazette)
• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (The Old New Thing, DevBlogs)
• Janet Jackson music video given CVE for crashing laptops (The Register)
• Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives (TechSpot)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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