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Citation

Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online

Author:
Epstein, Ziv; Berinsky, Adam J.; Cole, Rocky; Gully, Andrew; Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, David G.
Publication:
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Year:
2021

Recent research suggests that shifting users’ attention to accuracy increases the quality of news they subsequently share online. Here we help develop this initial observation into a suite of deployable interventions for practitioners. We ask (i) how prior results generalize to other approaches for prompting users to consider accuracy, and (ii) for whom these prompts