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- 9,289 links shared through original tweets and 7,215 links shared through retweets with quality scores 
- Corrections had more negative effects on the quality of retweets compared to the quality of original tweets 

Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking - RQ1 (Re)tweet Quality

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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