1Cademy - Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking

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Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking - Participants

Used 11 recent political claims that were deemed false by fact-checking website Snopes.com
Identified Twitter user who shared these 11 misinformation articles using source URLs of the articles (only considered original tweets and ignored retweets)
Found 3,581 tweets referring to the 11 articles
Gathered general information about accounts that tweeted the articles
Ranked users on an interval of [-2,2] based on their political ideology (-2 is strong liberal and 2 strong conservative) by looking at accounts they follow
Excluded 284 users whose political ideologies could not be concluded from accounts they follow, as well as users with more than 15,000 followers
2,000 users from a pool of 2,978 potential users were included in the experiment (24.6% liberal and 75.4% conservative)
Recruited an additional 231 “Master” workers from MTurk to break down the sharing intent behind each tweet to identify if users shared for the purposes of satire and did not actually agree with the false news content or if they actually agreed with the false political claims
“Master” workers concluded that most users were sharing the misinformation without criticisms based on the texts in their tweets

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Updated 2021-08-07

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