"media skepticism is found to significantly moderate the effect of fact-check alerts when the news is from a mainstream source but not from a non-mainstream source; with likelihood to share the mainstream news significantly mitigated at greater than weaker levels of media skepticism"

University of California, Berkeley

Hypothesis 1 and 2 were supported:
- analysis (moderated model PROCESS) showed significant main effects on the likelihood of sharing news on social media from fact-check alerts and news sources 
- less likely to share news when there is a fact-check alert
less likely to share news from a non-mainstream news source than a mainstream source 

Hypothesis 3 not supported:
- sharing likelihood did not decrease at a greater rate when users were given a fact-check alert on a nonmainstream news source
- the likelihood to share news decreased more for mainstream news sources

Hypothesis 4 not supported
- no three way relationship between media skeptcisim, fact-check alert, and news source

Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media Results

Nekmat, E. (2020). Nudge effect of fact-check alerts: source influence and media skepticism on sharing of news misinformation in social media. Social Media+ Society, 6(1), 2056305119897322.

Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media

Fact-check alerts decrease the likelihood sharing, more so for mainstream news sources than non-mainstream news sources. However, mainstream news sources are more likely to be shared regardless of fact-check alerts or not. 

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