Studies 3 & 4– accuracy rating and sharing surveys

• 727 (study 3) and 780 (study 4) participants from MTurk were shown 24 news headlines like in study 1
• Control group participants asked how likely they would share each headline on Facebook
• Treatment group first asked to rate accuracy of headlines before sharing intentions

Study 5 – representative population

• 1268 participants from Lucid with age, gender, ethnicity, and geographic region that supposedly represented American residents
• Active control condition asked participants to rate how humorous headlines were instead of accuracy
• Importance treatment asked participants how important they think sharing just accurate information is in general