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Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post? Results

Attention to the feed – asked participants if they saw any posts on raw milk and 90.5% answered yes, which suggests good information recall
Likelihood of responding – using one-way ANOVA and combining the correction types into one variable, researchers found only a small chance participants would respond
Open-ended analysis – used Chi-squared tests to determine if exposure to specific types of corrections had different effects on likelihood of response and logistic regression to analyze the impacts of exposure to uncivil vs civil corrections
Comparing likely to unlikely respondents – for participants likely to respond, corrections were not as effective, but for participants unlikely to reply, corrections substantially increased their likelihood to respond
No one in the misinformation condition offered to reply and only two did in the corrections condition