Assenza, Tiziana; Collard, Fabrice; Fève, Patrick; … - 2024
The proliferation of fake news poses significant challenges for policymakers and raises concerns about its potential … fake news in the US for the period 2007--2022. Utilizing a novel dataset of fact-checked statements from PolitiFact, we … construct a binary indicator to build a proxy for the exogenous variation in fake news issuance. Adopting a proxy-VAR approach …