This major Yale University study addresses the issue of political
misinformation, specifically through social media and fake news. This study
found that tagging false news stories as “disputed by third party
fact-checkers” has only a small impact on whether readers perceive their headlines
as true. Overall, the study showed that the existence of “disputed” tags made
participants only slightly more likely to correctly judge the headlines as
false. The implications of this study are that there can be more awareness for
potential issues surrounding acquiring news and information through social
media platforms, where fake news can become reality.
Pennycook, G., & Rand,
D. G. (2017). The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake
news stories increases perceived accuracy of stories without warnings.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3035384
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