2023
DOI: 10.1177/05390184231205174
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Do conspiracy theories circulating in the media or their debunking affect people’s trust in the media?

Nicoleta Corbu,
Alina Bârgăoanu,
Georgiana Udrea
et al.

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has fostered an unprecedented number of conspiracy theories about the virus and the vaccine against the disease. Current research has tried to make sense of the effects of conspiracy narratives and debunking them in both mainstream and social media. However, the effect of such narratives or their debunking on media trust has not been investigated to date. By means of a 2 × 2 experimental design (N = 945) in Romania, we investigate how mainstream and social media content containing conspir… Show more

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