| Autor: |
Rebecca Hofstein Grady, Peter H. Ditto, Elizabeth F. Loftus |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Cognitive Research, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2365-7464 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s41235-021-00315-z |
| Popis: |
Abstract Politically oriented “fake news”—false stories or headlines created to support or attack a political position or person—is increasingly being shared and believed on social media. Many online platforms have taken steps to address this by adding a warning label to articles identified as false, but past research has shown mixed evidence for the effectiveness of such labels, and many prior studies have looked only at either short-term impacts or non-political information. This study tested three versions of fake news labels with 541 online participants in a two-wave study. A warning that came before a false headline was initially very effective in both discouraging belief in false headlines generally and eliminating a partisan congruency effect (the tendency to believe politically congenial information more readily than politically uncongenial information). In the follow-up survey two weeks later, however, we found both high levels of belief in the articles and the re-emergence of a partisan congruency effect in all warning conditions, even though participants had known just two weeks ago the items were false. The new pre-warning before the headline showed some small improvements over other types, but did not stop people from believing the article once seen again without a warning. This finding suggests that warnings do have an important immediate impact and may work well in the short term, though the durability of that protection is limited. |
| Databáze: |
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