Undermining the Corrective Effects of Media‐Based Political Fact Checking? The Role of Contextual Cues and Naïve Theory

By R. Kelly Garrett, Erik C. Nisbet, Emily K. Lynch. 2013

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale Versus Contextual Correction Formats (2018, unknown): “Specifically, when fact-checks include partisan cues, they are often less successful at reducing misperceptions (Garrett, Nisbet & Lynch, 2013) and can even backfire (Nyhan & Reifler, 2010).”
Fact-Checking Effectiveness as a Function of Format and Tone: Evaluating FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org (2018, background): “Research by Garrett et al. (2013) explored the impact of”
Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter (2020, methodology): “…has found effects are stronger among those with higher misperceptions (Bode & Vraga, 2015; Vraga & Bode, 2017), in contrast to earlier research on direct correction which found stronger effects among those with low misperceptions (Garrett et al., 2013; Garrett & Weeks, 2013; Nyhan & Reifler, 2015).”
Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News (2020, unknown): “However, the educational video did not reduce outright deception—a finding that chimes with an important strand of research showing the limited effects of fact-checking (e.g., Garrett et al., 2013).”
Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections (2018, background): “Regarding the processing of corrections more specifically, some recent studies have also failed to find support for worldview effects: Garrett, Nisbet, and Lynch (2013) reported that a misconception that a local imam was a terrorist sympathizer was reduced by rebuttals irrespective of participants’…”
The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics (2017, background): “For instance, Garrett et al. (2013) ﬁnd that presenting people with background information that they ﬁnd culturally objectionable reduces the effectiveness of subsequent corrections.”