1Cademy - Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking

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Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking - Discussion of Findings

Found potential negative impacts of correction messages on subsequent tweet quality, partisan slant, and language toxicity
Decreased tweet quality and increased partisan slant and language toxicity after corrections were delivered
Results are greater for retweets, meaning that corrections do not only affect users of those original tweets containing false political news but other users on the platform who see the corrections as well

Updated 2021-08-07

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