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Online information is a critical societal threat in the digital age, and social media platforms are used a major vehicle to spread it. Misinformation can cause serious societal harm, in multiple ways: affecting public health, influencing public policy, instigating violence. spreading conspiracies. reducing trust in authorities, and increase polarization and conflict. The growing societal impact of misinformation has driven research on technical solutions to detect and stop actors that generate and spread such content. There is currently little empirical research on the effects of interface elements of social media feeds on the spread of misinformation. To address this gap, they empirically investigated how the spread of low-credibility content is affected by expo-sure to typical social engagement metrics, i.e., the numbers of Likes and Shares shown for a news article.

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Updated 2024-02-15

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