Correcting campaign misinformation: experimental evidence from a two-wave panel study
Horvath, Laszlo and Stevens, D. and Banducci, S. and Popp, R. and Coan, T. (2024) Correcting campaign misinformation: experimental evidence from a two-wave panel study. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 5 (1),
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Abstract
In this study, we used a two-wave panel and a real-world intervention during the 2017 UK general election to investigate whether fact-checking can reduce beliefs in an incorrect campaign claim, source effects, the duration of source effects, and how predispositions including political orientations and prior exposure condition them. We find correction effects in the short term only, but across different political divisions and various prior exposure levels. We discuss the significance of independent fact-checking sources and the UK partisan press in facilitating effects.
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Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Centre for British Political Life |
Depositing User: | Laszlo Horvath |
Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2024 16:33 |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2024 15:30 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52967 |
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