Displaying News Source Trustworthiness Ratings Reduces Sharing Intentions for False News Posts
نویسندگان
چکیده
Professional fact-checking of individual news headlines is an effective way to fight misinformation, but it not easily scalable, because cannot keep pace with the massive speed at which content gets posted on social media. Here we provide evidence for effectiveness ratings sources, instead articles. In a large pre-registered experiment quota-sampled Americans, find that participants are less likely share false (and more discerning true versus headlines) when 1-to-5 star trustworthiness were applied headlines. This both generated by fact-checkers and laypeople (although effect stronger using fact-checker ratings). We also observe positive spillover effect: sharing discernment increases whose source was rated, presence some prompts users reflect quality generally. study suggests displaying information regarding sources provides scalable approach reducing spread low-quality information.
منابع مشابه
Predicting the Popularity of Social News Posts
This project demonstrates that machine learning can be used to accurately predict a post’s popularity. After collecting several thousand posts from HackerNews over several weeks, basic machine learning techniques were applied to a generic set of features. After analyzing trends in the data and refining the learning processes, our model predicted a post’s popularity with 85% accuracy. These resu...
متن کاملPhotographs cause false memories for the news.
What is the effect on memory when seemingly innocuous photos accompany false reports of the news? We asked people to read news headlines of world events, some of which were false. Half the headlines appeared with photographs that were tangentially related to the event; others were presented without photographs. People saw each headline only once, and indicated whether they remembered the event,...
متن کاملCommenting, Sharing and Tweeting News Measuring Online News Participation
Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...
متن کاملRich Interfaces for Browsing News in Blog Posts
Semantic models of news can enable richer interfaces for end-users to learn the context of news events referenced in blog posts. We present Brussell, a system that uses contentspecific models of news event situations to perform anticipatory information retrieval, organize extraction results and present a novel, structured interface for navigating among the events of a news situation. INTRODUCTI...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of online trust and safety
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2770-3142']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v1i5.100