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Mashup Score: 2Gamified inoculation reduces susceptibility to misinformation from political ingroups | HKS Misinformation Review - 6 day(s) ago
Psychological inoculation interventions, which seek to pre-emptively build resistance against unwanted persuasion attempts, have shown promise in reducing susceptibility to misinformation. However, as many people receive news from popular, mainstream ingroup sources (e.g., a left-wing person consuming left-wing media) which may host misleading or false content, and as ingroup sources may be more persuasive, the
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Mashup Score: 2Journalistic interventions matter: Understanding how Americans perceive fact-checking labels | HKS Misinformation Review - 14 day(s) ago
While algorithms and crowdsourcing have been increasingly used to debunk or label misinformation on social media, such tasks might be most effective when performed by professional fact checkers or journalists. Drawing on a national survey (N = 1,003), we found that U.S. adults evaluated fact-checking labels created by professional fact checkers as more effective than labels by algorithms and
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Mashup Score: 1What do we study when we study misinformation? A scoping review of experimental research (2016-2022) | HKS Misinformation Review - 1 month(s) ago
We reviewed 555 papers published from 2016–2022 that presented misinformation to participants. We identified several trends in the literature—increasing frequency of misinformation studies over time, a wide variety of topics covered, and a significant focus on COVID-19 misinformation since 2020. We also identified several important shortcomings, including overrepresentation of samples from the United States and
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Mashup Score: 2Fact-opinion differentiation | HKS Misinformation Review - 2 month(s) ago
Statements of fact can be proved or disproved with objective evidence, whereas statements of opinion depend on personal values and preferences. Distinguishing between these types of statements contributes to information competence. Conversely, failure at fact-opinion differentiation potentially brings resistance to corrections of misinformation and susceptibility to manipulation. Our analyses show that on fact-opinion differentiation tasks, unsystematic
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Mashup Score: 1Did the Musk takeover boost contentious actors on Twitter? | HKS Misinformation Review - 8 month(s) ago
After his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk pledged to overhaul verification and moderation policies. These events sparked fears of a rise in influence of contentious actors—notably from the political right. I investigated whether these actors did receive increased engagement over this period by gathering tweet data for accounts that purchased blue-tick verification before and after
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Mashup Score: 1A survey of expert views on misinformation: Definitions, determinants, solutions, and future of the field | HKS Misinformation Review - 10 month(s) ago
We surveyed 150 academic experts on misinformation and identified areas of expert consensus. Experts defined misinformation as false and misleading information, though views diverged on the importance of intentionality and what exactly constitutes misinformation. The most popular reason why people believe and share misinformation was partisanship, while lack of education was one of the least
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Gamified inoculation reduces susceptibility to misinformation from political ingroups https://t.co/MoHYjzgQpa via @CecilieTraberg et al https://t.co/dHzxRBwHEd