Disconnect between sharing and accuracy (studies 1, 2)

• People’s preferences play a huge role in determining whether they would share an accurate or inaccurate headline, even if they know that accuracy is most important
• Political alignment, attract followers, belonging to a group of like-minded individuals

Deploying the intervention on Twitter (study 7)

• Network dynamics – when users start sharing accurate information, their followers also see that and in turn become more cognizant of what they are really sharing
• Social media platforms can occasionally ask users to rate the accuracy of headlines to subtly remind them of the importance of sharing only accurate information