Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

By Brendan Nyhan, Ethan Porter, Jason Reifler, T. Wood. Political Behavior, 2019

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings (2020, neutral): “Our results add to a growing body of evidence (Wood and Porter 2018, Clayton et al. 2019, Nyhan et al. 2019) that back ﬁ re effects are in fact quite elusive and that, instead, people typically respond by updating in the direction of even coun-terattitudinal information.”
Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023, background): “On the other hand, work is being conducted to boost the effectiveness of these initiatives to reduce misinformation (Chung and Kim 2021; Clayton et al. 2020; Nyhan et al. 2020).”
The Effects of Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud on Confidence in Elections (2021, background): “Though these messages do not come from dedicated fact-checking outlets per se, these standalone articles fit within the larger diffusion of the format through the mainstream press (Graves, Nyhan and Reifler 2015) and follow prior work on journalistic corrections (Nyhan et al. 2019; Nyhan and Reifler”
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India (2020, background): “These include providing warning labels on articles, attaching disputed tags to misinformation, and providing corrective information beside fake claims (Bode and Vraga 2015; Pennycook, Cannon, and Rand 2018; Clayton et al. 2019; Nyhan et al. 2019).”
Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking (2021, result): “The same result was obtained in a study by Nyhan et al. (2019) using a different methodology.”