Arbeitspapier
The Demand for Fact-Checking
Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an ideologically aligned source, even though fact-checking increases the perceived accuracy of the newsletter. The average impact of fact-checking masks substantial heterogeneity by ideology: fact-checking reduces demand among respondents with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate respondents. Furthermore, fact-checking increases demand among all respondents when the newsletter features stories from an ideologically non-aligned source.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9061
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Entertainment; Media
- Subject
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fact-checking
news consumption
information
media bias
belief polarization
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Chopra, Felix
Haaland, Ingar K.
Roth, Christopher
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chopra, Felix
- Haaland, Ingar K.
- Roth, Christopher
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2021
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