- H1: having mutual friends increased the acceptance rate by 22% in study 1 and 31% in study 2
- H2: the number of mutual friends only increased acceptance rate by 3% in study 1 and was not supported in study 2

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- Ran the same procedure on a new set of tweets from October 31, 3015 to February 3, 2016
- Snopes do not need to be political but need to fit into one of the tweet categories 
- Obtained 759 tweets that fit into one of the three triplet structures 
- 465 were deemed to contain corrections for misinformation 
- 91% of the correction tweets were accepted by snopees 

Political fact-checking on Twitter: When do corrections have an effect? - Study 2 Procedure

Margolin, D. B., Hannak, A., & Weber, I. (2018). Political fact-checking on Twitter: When do corrections have an effect?. Political Communication, 35(2), 196-219. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2017.1334018?casa_token=xftR1jtjkdMAAAAA%3ApRSWcFHJ58eoBesKnxkoMR8ri-lVeQWoLPakXv9i_aZri4yWIDtjWBfYeEMOBso1kDpqcja-yXD4LQ 

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