The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been disputed by third-party fact-checkers. Here we demonstrate a hitherto unappreciated potential consequence of such a warning: an implied truth effect...

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Main Authors: Pennycook, Gordon, Bear, Adam, Collins, Evan T., Rand, David Gertler
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130380