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The small effects of short user corrections on misinformation in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom

Author:
Altay, Sacha; Andı, Simge; Badrinathan, Sumitra; Mont’Alverne, Camila; Toff, Benjamin; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis; Fletcher, Richard
Publication:
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Year:
2025

How effective are user corrections in combatting misinformation on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve their effectiveness? We conducted a pre-registered online experiment on representative samples of the online population in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom (N participants = 3,000, N observations = 24,000). We found that in