Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media
By Nicholas C. Dias, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2020
114 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Survey experiments with nearly 7,000 Americans suggest that increasing the visibility of publishers is an ineffective, and perhaps even counterproductive, way to address misinformation on social media. Our findings underscore the importance of social media platforms and civil society organizations evaluating interventions experimentally rather than implementing them based on intuitive appeal.
Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science
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- David G. Rand
- Gordon Pennycook
- Jabin Binnendyk
- Christie Newton
- Sabrine Amri
- Esma Aïmeur
- Gilles Brassard
- Nicholas C. Dias
Citations in the corpus
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- Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023, background): “…studies , which investigate why and who falls for fake news (Altay et al. 2022; Batailler et al. 2022; Sterret et al. 2018; Badawy et al. 2019; Pennycook and Rand 2020; Weiss et al. 2020; Guadagno and Guttieri 2021), whom to trust and how perceptions of misinformation and disinformation…”
- The Psychology of Fake News. (2021, background): “study 4 of [93] in which US participants (n = 1008) from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) provided accuracy ratings for the”
- A Practical Guide to Doing Behavioral Research on Fake News and Misinformation (2020, background): “The source has changed, but people are not familiar with these sources and, anyway, sources have very little impact on judgments for headlines of this sort (Dias et al., 2020).”