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

  • Recruited 610 participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in September 2018
  • Participants randomly assigned to one of ten experiments, but only four are analyzed and discussed in this paper (ignored the pure control condition and 5 conditions that used two tweets)
  • Participants were shown 6 tweets from a simulated feed (5 neutral and 1 manipulated) and required to spend at least 15 seconds on each
  • After reading through the tweets, participants answered questions about their general opinion about the tweet and their likelihood to reply and what they would share if they did
  • The manipulation post was the third one shown and it was a meme that said pasteurization kills nutrients in raw milk

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Updated 2021-06-04

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