Learning Together Slowly: Bayesian Learning about Political Facts

By Seth J. Hill. Journal of Politics, 2017

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Generating Fact Checking Briefs (2020, unknown): “Analysis shows accuracy can improve by providing feedback (Hill, 2017), additional time (Bago et al., 2020), tooling (Kar-duni et al., 2019), or training (Zhang et al., 2018).”
Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability (2019, background): “When people have stronger accuracy goals (e.g., they are provided a reward for each correct answer as in Hill 2017), respondents will process information more dispassionately and seek to maximize the accuracy of their beliefs.”