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We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the short- and longer-term effects of fact checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We show that the impact of fact checking is limited to the corrected fake news, whereas media literacy helps to distinguish between false and correct...
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major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under … MPs' relative number of Twitter referrals to that outlet. We find that three outlets are positioned on the left, and two …
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intransitivity of the social network's connections. By matching the universe of Italian vaccine-related tweets for 2013-2018 with … counter misinformation and improve vaccine uptake. …
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This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across …-vax sentiment, represented by old "truthers" on Twitter, amplifies online COVID skepticism in local communities. Additionally …
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. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An …
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towards the diffusion of misinformation (e.g., "fake news"), since lower ex-ante accuracy of content of minority websites can …
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, namely popularity and personalization parameters, on measures of platform engagement, misinformation and polarization. The … personalized content may increase engagement on the social media platform, while at the same time increasing misinformation and …
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refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...
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