Assessing the Effect of 'Disputed' Warnings and Source Salience on Perceptions of Fake News Accuracy

Published: Jan 1, 2017
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...
Paper Details
Title
Assessing the Effect of 'Disputed' Warnings and Source Salience on Perceptions of Fake News Accuracy
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
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