https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3272973.3274056

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Researchers developed and tested FeedReflect, a browser extension that promotes responsible and reflective social media use.

FeedReflect: A Tool for Nudging Users to Assess News Credibility on Twitter

"FeedReflect: A Tool for Nudging Users to Assess News Credibility on Twitter" Paper

Twitter is a tremendously popular social media platform, and many users find the site to be their number-one source of news. However, fake news is often disseminated on the website. Nudges are a potential solution to this problem - users can be pushed to behave in a certain way without sacrificing their freedom of choice. The authors have designed a tool that both visually flags Tweets that require information validation and provides questions to reflect on the news source.

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