Source credibility and plausibility are considered in the validation of textual information: evidence from a social media context

Evaluating tweets reduces the influence of inaccurate content, but does “liking” a tweet reflect evaluation?

“…They reproduced fewer inaccuracies for easy items they likely knew were wrong than for hard items they were less likely to know were wrong. The Tweet stimuli tested the generalizability of the previous findings derived from single sentence declarative inaccuracies, this time appearing in a social media context (also see Wertgen & Richter, 2023). Experiment 2 additionally assessed the consequences of asking participants to rate whether they would like the Tweets, a decision routine and central to social media interactions.…”