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Inattention-based misinformation and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pennycook et al. tested the inattention-based account of misinformation sharing as it relates to COVID-19 misinformation. They conducted two studies. The goal of the first study was to find correlations between personal characteristics and the ability to discern true or false headlines under different conditions. The goal of the second study was to see if subtly reminding people to consider accuracy reduced misinformation sharing related to COVID-19.

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