Citation

Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information?

Author:
Acerbi, Alberto; Altay, Sacha; Mercier, Hugo
Publication:
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Year:
2022

A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article, we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformation (including fake news), interventions aimed at reducing