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Autor/inn/en | Grady, Rebecca Hofstein; Ditto, Peter H.; Loftus, Elizabeth F. |
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Titel | Nevertheless, Partisanship Persisted: Fake News Warnings Help Briefly, but Bias Returns with Time |
Quelle | In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6 (2021), Artikel 52 (16 Seiten)
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Grady, Rebecca Hofstein) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2365-7464 |
DOI | 10.1186/s41235-021-00315-z |
Schlagwörter | Deception; News Reporting; Political Attitudes; Social Media; Information Sources; Beliefs; Surveys; Bias; Cognitive Processes; Identification; Internet |
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. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |