1Cademy - Procedure of Flagging fake news on social media: An experimental study of media consumers identification of fake news

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Procedure of "Flagging fake news on social media: An experimental study of media consumers' identification of fake news"

717 participants were recruited to participate in a preregistered experiment on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
Participants were randomly assigned into three groups: a control group in which participants were only presented with news items, a treatment group where participants were presented with news as well as flags created by fact-checkers (Treatment 1), and a treatment group where participants were presented with news as well as crowdsourced flags (Treatment 2)
Participants in each group all read 30 news items containing a headline, an image, and a lead that had been selected from the archive of Snopes.com
1/3 of the stories were either nonpolitical or politically neutral, while the rest could be split evenly to be ideologically consistent between Democrats and Republicans
For each news item, participants were asked to answer "In your opinion, is this a genuine news story?" within a 60 second time limit; they could answer with "yes," "no," or "not sure"