Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention
Across two studies with more than 1,700 U.S. adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they simply fail to think sufficiently about whether or not the content is accurate when deciding what to share. In Study 1, participants were far wo...
Main Authors: | Pennycook, Gordon (Author), McPhetres, Jonathan (Author), Lu, Guannan (Author), Rand, David G. (Author), Zhang, Yunhao,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Author) |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications,
2020-07-08T14:11:31Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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