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, McPhetres, Jonathan, Lu, Guannan, Rand, David G., Zhang, Yunhao,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management |
Format: | Article |
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SAGE Publications
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126080 |
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