Participants who saw the enhanced guidelines were significantly less likely to trust, like, or share the fake news posts. 

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For enhanced guidelines, participants had to rate the guidelines by importance. This was thought to engage critical thinking machinery in the brain. 

Enhanced Guidelines for Evaluating Misinformation 

Lutzke. L., Drummond, C., Slovic, P., &Arvai, J. (2019). Priming critical thinking: Simple interventions limit the influence of fake news about climate change on Facebook. Global Environmental Change, 58, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101964

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