Assessing the Effect of 'Disputed' Warnings and Source Salience on Perceptions of Fake News Accuracy
Abstract
What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact-checkers. Here we demonstrate a hitherto unappreciated potential consequence of such a warning: an “implied truth” effect whereby false headlines that fail to get tagged are considered validated and thus are seen as more accurate. With a formal model, we demonstrate...
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Assessing the Effect of 'Disputed' Warnings and Source Salience on Perceptions of Fake News Accuracy
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
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