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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
News credibility labels have limited average effects on news diet quality and fail to reduce misperceptions
Beteiligte:
Aslett, Kevin;
Guess, Andrew M.;
Bonneau, Richard;
Nagler, Jonathan;
Tucker, Joshua A.
Erschienen:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2022
Erschienen in:
Science Advances, 8 (2022) 18
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1126/sciadv.abl3844
ISSN:
2375-2548
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Beschreibung:
As the primary arena for viral misinformation shifts toward transnational threats, the search continues for scalable countermeasures compatible with principles of transparency and free expression. We conducted a randomized field experiment evaluating the impact of source credibility labels embedded in users’ social feeds and search results pages. By combining representative surveys ( n = 3337) and digital trace data ( n = 968) from a subset of respondents, we provide a rare ecologically valid test of such an intervention on both attitudes and behavior. On average across the sample, we are unable to detect changes in real-world consumption of news from low-quality sources after 3 weeks. We can also rule out small effects on perceived accuracy of popular misinformation spread about the Black Lives Matter movement and coronavirus disease 2019. However, we present suggestive evidence of a substantively meaningful increase in news diet quality among the heaviest consumers of misinformation. We discuss the implications of our findings for scholars and practitioners.