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Political fact-checking on Twitter: When do corrections have an effect? - Study 1 Results

322 of the tweets showed agreement between snopee and snoper, but 93 were categorized as non-correction tweets and only 229 were correction tweets
Out of the 229 correction tweets, 135 (59%) were accepted by the snopee
People are more likely to respond to mutual friends (44%) than complete strangers (24%)
Acceptance rate of 39% when both snopees and snopers are strangers, 73% when mutual friends, 64% when snopees follow snopers, and 79% when snopers follow snopees
Acceptance rate is increased most (by 3.4 times) when only the snoper follows the snopee
Higher acceptance rate when the number of mutual followers is greater

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Updated 2021-07-05

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