1Cademy - Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking

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Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking - Experimental Design

Standard stepped-wedge design used to study the causal impact of correction on sharing starting from when the correction messages were sent
Compared tweets by users who have vs. have not received correction messages on a user-day level within a 24-hour time frame
Treatment group included 132 users who could not receive a message due to delivery failures arising from account suspension or protected accounts
Control group included 414 users who did not receive a message in the first 14 days before the accounts were suspended

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Updated 2021-08-07

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