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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions"

By @laraberger.bsky.social, Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl, & Johannes Münster
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Policy takeaway: Brief, scalable “tips to spot fake news” can often outperform reactive fact-checks. They’re easy to implement and foster critical thinking. Check out the full paper for all the details!

Some of the positive effects persist even two weeks later. Both interventions preserve trust in accurate posts, but media literacy builds broader, longer-lasting skills to spot misinformation.

We compare a brief media literacy training to fact-checking in a large-scale survey experiment. Key results: Fact-checking corrects specific falsehoods but doesn’t easily carry over to untagged content. Media literacy helps users detect a wider range of fake news.

Debunking “fake news” on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking and media literacy interventions We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We …

Excited to share that our new paper: “Debunking ‘fake news’ on social media: Immediate and short-term effects of fact-checking & media literacy” (w/ Anna Kerkhof, Felix Mindl & Johannes Münster) is now forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics.
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