Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

A Kozyreva, P Lorenz-Spreen, SM Herzog… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the …

Fighting misperceptions and doubting journalists' objectivity: A review of fact-checking literature

S Nieminen, L Rapeli - Political studies review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fact checkers evaluate the truthfulness of political claims appearing in public. The practice
has increased enormously in recent years. This review analyses research concerning …

Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election

AM Guess, B Nyhan, J Reifler - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Although commentators frequently warn about echo chambers, little is known about the
volume or slant of political misinformation that people consume online, the effects of social …

Emotions, partisanship, and misperceptions: How anger and anxiety moderate the effect of partisan bias on susceptibility to political misinformation

BE Weeks - Journal of communication, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Citizens are frequently misinformed about political issues and candidates but the
circumstances under which inaccurate beliefs emerge are not fully understood. This …

Political fact-checking on Twitter: When do corrections have an effect?

DB Margolin, A Hannak, I Weber - Political communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Research suggests that fact checking corrections have only a limited impact on the spread of
false rumors. However, research has not considered that fact-checking may be socially …

The effectiveness of short‐format refutational fact‐checks

UKH Ecker, Z O'Reilly, JS Reid… - British journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fact‐checking has become an important feature of the modern media landscape. However,
it is unclear what the most effective format of fact‐checks is. Some have argued that simple …

Checking how fact-checkers check

C Lim - Research & politics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fact-checking has gained prominence as a movement for revitalizing truth-seeking ideals in
journalism. While fact-checkers are often assumed to code facts accurately, few studies have …

[PDF][PDF] Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation and manipulation

A Kozyreva, P Lorenz-Spreen, S Herzog, U Ecker… - 2022 - files.osf.io
The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. A wide range of individual …

The effect of fact‐checking on elites: A field experiment on US state legislators

B Nyhan, J Reifler - American journal of political science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Does external monitoring improve democratic performance? Fact‐checking has come to
play an increasingly important role in political coverage in the United States, but some …

Una reflexión sobre la epistemología del fact-checking journalism: retos y dilemas

C Rodríguez Pérez - Revista de comunicación, 2020 - scielo.org.pe
El periodismo de verificación o fact-checking journalism ha experimentado un auge en todo
el mundo y mayor incidencia en el debate público. Este artículo plantea una reflexión sobre …