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 

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.

Effect of Guidelines on Misinformation Acceptance

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

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Allowing users to view a list of guidelines for detecting a fake news post or article themselves. Works by priming critical thinking mechanisms. Could be a useful correction method on social media platforms like Facebook. 

Guideline Correction

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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