<i>Communication Quarterly</i>Rockin’ the Gubernatorial Vote?: Young People’s Normative Democratic Attitudes and Behaviors in a Low-Involvement Election

Dunn, Scott; Butler, Sheena L.; Meeks, Katelyn; Collier, James E.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2015.1078830

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“…People tend to hold more positive views about candidates who receive positive judgements from fact checkers (Wintersieck, 2017). Reading fact-checking articles increases (self-reported) political knowledge (Dunn et al, 2015), while people who visit fact-checking sites are more politically accurate than those who do not visit them (Gottfried et al, 2013). It is, however, unclear whether this is due to a possible educative impact of fact-checking or to self-selection among visitors on fact-checking sites.…”

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Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists’ Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature

Nieminen

Rapeli

2018

Political Studies Review

111

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Fact checkers evaluate the truthfulness of political claims appearing in public. The practice has increased enormously in recent years. This review analyses research concerning political fact-checking; it presents what kind of studies have been made about fact-checking and introduces their main findings. Most of the literature focuses either on fact-checking as a profession or on its corrective potential. Research about the effectiveness of fact-checking offers mixed results: some find that fact-checking reduces misperceptions, others that corrections are often ineffective. It is also disputed whether fact checkers are consistent in their conclusions and whether their methods are reliable. Moreover, the literature is overwhelmingly focused in the US context.

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“…If the subject is not interesting, corrections instead reduce this confidence (Pingree et al, 2014). Evidence is also contradictory in terms of whether corrections affect political cynicism (Dunn et al, 2015; Pingree et al, 2013). Margolin et al (2018) and Shin et al (2017) examined the effects of fact-checking on Twitter.…”

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Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists’ Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature

Nieminen

Rapeli

2018

Political Studies Review

111

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“…The growth of fact-checking comes at a time when communicating the validity of claims has important ramifications from support for vaccines to belief in the legitimacy of elections (Painter & Fernandes, 2022;Zhang et al, 2021). Although fact-checking is not the only means for combating misinformation, its benefits are well-documented (Dunn et al, 2015;Fridkin et al, 2015;Gottfried et al, 2013;Weeks & Garrett, 2014;Wood & Porter, 2019). For fact checks to be effective in the most basic sense, two things must happen.…”

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Multiple-choice quizzes improve memory for misinformation debunks, but do not reduce belief in misinformation

2023

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Fact-checkers want people to both read and remember their misinformation debunks. Retrieval practice is one way to increase memory, thus multiple-choice quizzes may be a useful tool for fact-checkers. We tested whether exposure to quizzes improved people’s accuracy ratings for fact-checked claims and their memory for specific information within a fact check. Across three experiments, 1551 US-based online participants viewed fact checks (either health- or politics-related) with or without a quiz. Overall, the fact checks were effective, and participants were more accurate in rating the claims after exposure. In addition, quizzes improved participants’ memory for the details of the fact checks, even 1 week later. However, that increased memory did not lead to more accurate beliefs. Participants’ accuracy ratings were similar in the quiz and no-quiz conditions. Multiple-choice quizzes can be a useful tool for increasing memory, but there is a disconnect between memory and belief.

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Politics and social media: an analysis of factors anteceding voting intention

de-Oliveira

Almeida

Mainardes

2021

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Communication QuarterlyRockin’ the Gubernatorial Vote?: Young People’s Normative Democratic Attitudes and Behaviors in a Low-Involvement Election

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists’ Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature

Fighting Misperceptions and Doubting Journalists’ Objectivity: A Review of Fact-checking Literature

Multiple-choice quizzes improve memory for misinformation debunks, but do not reduce belief in misinformation

Politics and social media: an analysis of factors anteceding voting intention

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