Sex Trafficking, Russian Infiltration, Birth Certificates, and Pedophilia: A Survey Experiment Correcting Fake News. Issue 2 (9th January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Porter, Ethan; Wood, Thomas J.; Kirby, David
• Is Part Of: Journal of experimental political science. Volume 5:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 159
• Page End: 164
• Publication Date: 2018-01-09
• Subjects: Political science -- Periodicals; Political science -- Research -- Periodicals; Political science -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 320.0724
• DOI: 10.1017/XPS.2017.32
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-2630

Abstract

Abstract : Following the 2016 U.S. election, researchers and policymakers have become intensely concerned about the dissemination of "fake news, " or false news stories in circulation (Lazer et al., 2017). Research indicates that fake news is shared widely and has a pro-Republican tilt (Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017). Facebook now flags dubious stories as disputed and tries to block fake news publishers (Mosseri, 2016). While the typical misstatements of politicians can be corrected (Nyhan et al., 2017), the sheer depth of fake news's conspiracizing may preclude correction. Can fake news be corrected?