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

Effect of Enhanced Guidelines on Misinformation Acceptance

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

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- Recognition of the news source
- Believability of the information presented
- Sufficiently professional writing style
- Political motivation

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

Priming critical thinking: Simple interventions limit the influence of fake news about climate change on Facebook

Enhanced Guidelines for Evaluating Misinformation 

Participants who viewed the guidelines before seeing a fake news post rated it as less trustworthy and reported being less likely to like or share it.

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