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- 10,383 links shared through original tweets and 12,077 through retweets had slant scores 
- Corrections increased partisan slant for retweets during the 24-hour window immediately after the intervention 
- Corrections had no effect on original tweets during the 24-hour window immediately after the intervention
- Effects of corrections on partisan slant is larger for retweets than original tweets 

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking - RQ3 Partisan Slant

Mosleh, M., Martel, C., Eckles, D., & Rand, D. (2021, May). Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking: Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment. In proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445642 

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking: Being Corrected by Another User for Posting False Political News Increases Subsequent Sharing of Low Quality, Partisan, and Toxic Content in a Twitter Field Experiment

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