• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: The Demand for Fact-Checking
  • Contributor: Chopra, Felix [Author]; Haaland, Ingar K. [Author]; Roth, Christopher [Author]
  • Published: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), 2021
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: belief polarization ; D83 ; D91 ; information ; fact-checking ; media bias ; L82 ; news consumption
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access