Arbeitspapier
Debunking "fake news" on social media: Short-term and longer-term effects of fact checking and media literacy interventions
We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the short- and longer-term effects of fact checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We show that the impact of fact checking is limited to the corrected fake news, whereas media literacy helps to distinguish between false and correct information more generally, both immediately and two weeks after the intervention. A plausible mechanism is that media literacy enables participants to critically evaluate social media postings, while fact checking fails to enhance their skills. Our results promote media literacy as an effective tool to fight fake news, that is cheap, scalable, and easy-to-implement.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ECONtribute Discussion Paper ; No. 262
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Regulation
Entertainment; Media
Cultural Economics: Public Policy
- Thema
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Covid
Facebook
fact checking
fake news
media literacy
misinformation
nutrition
social media
supplements
survey experiment
vaccine
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Berger, Lara Marie
Kerkhof, Anna
Mindl, Felix
Münster, Johannes
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)
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Bonn and Cologne
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Berger, Lara Marie
- Kerkhof, Anna
- Mindl, Felix
- Münster, Johannes
- University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)
Entstanden
- 2023
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