Take part in the study
This study experimentally measures the effectiveness of cognitive inoculation against documented FIMI content. You react to a series of pieces of content as they circulate online. At the end, the dossier is declassified: you discover the real origin of each piece of content and the manipulation technique used.
- Type
- A randomised controlled trial, conducted online.
- Audience
- Adults; participation is voluntary and anonymous.
- Recruitment closes
- 31 October 2026.
- Ethics approval
- The protocol was approved by a research ethics committee before recruitment opened; the file reference is available on request.
- Pre-registration
- Hypotheses and analysis plan pre-registered on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20403018).
The study runs on inoculation.fr
Recruitment and participation tracking are handled on the dedicated platform. Completing the study takes about five minutes.
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- No identifying personal data is collected.
- Processing complies with the GDPR; responses are aggregated for research purposes only.
- You may stop the session at any moment, without giving a reason.
- You may download your own responses at the end of the session.
- The aggregated and anonymised results will be published after the defence.
For any question about the study or your data, see the contact page.
Taking part is not "supplying a data point". It is refusing to be merely the terrain of an operation.
FIMI operations treat citizens as surfaces: targets whose reaction is measured without ever handing control back to them. This study reverses the gesture. It shows you the techniques, lets you recognise them, then explains what you have just seen.
In five minutes, you do two things at once: you strengthen your own reading of manipulated content, and you contribute to work that seeks, more broadly, to equip democratic judgement. On a small scale, it is an act of civic dignity, and it is on that basis that the invitation is addressed to you.