How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking?

Abstract Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will internet users listen to crowdsourced fact-checking, and how? In this experiment we test how participants follow others’ opinions to evaluate the validity of a science-themed Facebook post and exami...

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Main Authors: Folco Panizza, Piero Ronzani, Tiffany Morisseau, Simone Mattavelli, Carlo Martini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-11-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02329-y