Correcting erroneous inferences in memory: The role of source credibility

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Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter (2020, methodology): “…that misperceptions are more difficult to correct when the misinformation comes from a credible source compared to a noncredible source, although differences in corrective power between high- and low-credibility sources is less clear (Walter & Tukachinsky, 2019; see also Guillory & Geraci, 2013).”
A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Continued Influence of Misinformation in the Face of Correction: How Powerful Is It, Why Does It Happen, and How to Stop It? (2019, background): “Similarly, in the misinformation literature, studies have found that messages are more effective when they are associated with a high-credibility source compared with a low-credibility source (Guillory & Geraci, 2013).”
He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation (2015, background): “…and counterbalanced causes and having all relevant information communicated by the same source, we attempted to control for the factors of plausibility and source credibility, which are known to affect the processing of misinformation and retractions (see Guillory & Geraci, 2013; Seifert, 2002).”