Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm? Using Layperson Judgments to Combat Misinformation on Social Media by Downranking Distrusted Sources

© 2020 Owner/Author. How can social media platforms fight the spread of misinformation? One possibility is to use newsfeed algorithms to downrank content from sources that users rate as untrustworthy. But will laypeople be handicapped by motivated reasoning or lack of expertise, and thus unable to i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Epstein, Ziv, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACM 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137031