TY - JOUR
T1 - Correcting campaign misinformation
T2 - Experimental evidence from a two-wave panel study
AU - Horvath, Laszlo
AU - Stevens, Daniel
AU - Banducci, Susan
AU - Popp, Raluca
AU - Coan, Travis
PY - 2024/2/5
Y1 - 2024/2/5
N2 - In this study, we used a two-wave panel and a real-world intervention during the 2017 UK general election to investigate whether fact-checking can reduce beliefs in an incorrect campaign claim, source effects, the duration of source effects, and how predispositions including political orientations and prior exposure condition them. We find correction effects in the short term only, but across different political divisions and various prior exposure levels. We discuss the significance of independent fact-checking sources and the UK partisan press in facilitating effects.
AB - In this study, we used a two-wave panel and a real-world intervention during the 2017 UK general election to investigate whether fact-checking can reduce beliefs in an incorrect campaign claim, source effects, the duration of source effects, and how predispositions including political orientations and prior exposure condition them. We find correction effects in the short term only, but across different political divisions and various prior exposure levels. We discuss the significance of independent fact-checking sources and the UK partisan press in facilitating effects.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184930380&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.37016/mr-2020-132
DO - 10.37016/mr-2020-132
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184930380
SN - 2766-1652
VL - 5
JO - Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
JF - Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
IS - 1
M1 - 132
ER -