Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media

When users on social media share content without considering its veracity, they may unwittingly be spreading misinformation. In this work, we investigate the design of lightweight interventions that nudge users to assess the accuracy of information as they share it. Such assessment may deter users f...

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Main Authors: Jahanbakhsh, Farnaz (Author), Zhang, Amy X (Author), Berinsky, Adam J (Author), Pennycook, Gordon (Author), Rand, David G (Author), Karger, David R (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-11-12T16:03:01Z.
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