1Cademy - Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post? Discussion

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

Most people were generally not willing to respond
But for participants who would reply, they mostly included accurate information in their response to tweets containing misinformation
The likelihood that participants provided accurate information increases with exposure to existing corrections
Whether a correction is civil or uncivil did not affect the tone of responses
The effects of corrections are most significant among participants who were originally unlikely to respond
RQ1 – being exposed to corrections did not increase participants’ likelihood of responding compared to the misinformation-only group
RQ2 – correction tone also did not impact the likelihood of response
RQ3 – the type and tone of corrections did not have statistically significant impacts on response likelihood, even though exposure to corrections increased the likelihood of response