Leveraging Structured Trusted-Peer Assessments to Combat Misinformation

Platform operators have devoted significant effort to combating misinformation on behalf of their users. Users are also stakeholders in this battle, but efforts combat go unsupported by the platforms. In work, we consider three new user affordances that give social media users greater power fight against misinformation: (1) ability provide structured accuracy assessments posts, (2) user-specified indication trust other users, and (3) configuration feed filters according assessed accuracy. To understand potential these designs, conducted a need-finding survey 192 people who share discuss news media, finding many already act limit or misinformation, albeit repurposing existing platform lack customized structure for information assessment. We then field study prototype implements as inputs directly impact how whether posts shown. The involved 14 participants used week while collectively assessing report users' perception use affordances. design implications platforms researchers based our empirical observations.