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Flagging fake news on social media: An experimental study of media consumers' identification of fake news
Government Information Quarterly ( IF 8.490 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 , DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2021.101591
Dongfang Gaozhao

Policymakers are taking action to protect their citizens and democratic systems from online misinformation. However, media consumers usually have a hard time differentiating misinformation from authentic information. There are two explanations for this difficulty, namely lazy reasoning and motivated reasoning. While lazy reasoning suggests that people may feel reluctant to conduct critical reasoning when consuming online information, the motivated reasoning theory points out that individuals are also thinking in alignment with their identities and established viewpoints. A proposed approach to address this issue is adding fact-checking flags in the hope that flags could alert people to information falsehoods and stimulate critical thinking. This study examines the impact of fact-checking flags on media consumers' identification of fake news. Conducting an experiment (n = 717) on Amazon Mechanical Turk, the study finds that experimental participants with different political backgrounds depend heavily on flag-checking results provided by flags. Flags are powerful to influence people's judgments in a way that participants have blind beliefs in flags even if the flag assessments are inaccurate. Furthermore, the study's results indicate that flag assessments made by professional fact-checkers or crowdsourcing are equally influential in shaping participants' identification. These observations provide public and private leaders with suggestions that fact-checking flags can significantly affect media consumers' identification of fake news. However, flags appear to have little ability to promote critical thinking in this experiment.



中文翻译:

在社交媒体上标记虚假新闻:媒体消费者识别虚假新闻的实验研究

政策制定者正在采取行动保护其公民和民主系统免受在线错误信息的侵害。然而,媒体消费者通常很难区分错误信息和真实信息。这种困难有两种解释,即懒惰推理和动机推理。虽然懒惰推理表明人们在消费在线信息时可能不愿意进行批判性推理,但动机推理理论指出,个人也在根据自己的身份和既定观点进行思考。解决此问题的建议方法是添加事实检查标记,希望标记可以提醒人们注意信息错误并激发批判性思维。本研究考察了事实核查标志对媒体消费者识别假新闻的影响。n  = 717) 在 Amazon Mechanical Turk 上,研究发现具有不同政治背景的实验参与者在很大程度上依赖于标志提供的标志检查结果。旗帜可以强大地影响人们的判断,即使旗帜评估不准确,参与者也会盲目相信旗帜。此外,该研究的结果表明,由专业事实核查员或众包进行的旗帜评估在塑造参与者的身份认同方面同样具有影响力。这些观察结果为公共和私人领导人提供了建议,即事实核查标志会显着影响媒体消费者对假新闻的识别。然而,在这个实验中,flags 似乎几乎没有促进批判性思维的能力。

更新日期:2021-06-25
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