- True news headlines identified correctly as accurate more than false headlines as inaccurate
- Headlines that aligned with a participant’s political affiliation were also identified correctly more than headlines that did not 
- In terms of sharing, political alignment had greater differences than the accuracy of headlines 
- Most people responded “extremely important” 

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Study 1 – headline accuracy and sharing 
- Showed 1015 participants from Mechanical Turk 36 news stories with corresponding headlines, lede sentences, and pictures from social media
- Half true, half false
- Half in favor of Democrats; half in favor of Republicans
- Participants randomly asked to decipher the accuracy of the news articles (accuracy condition) or whether they would share it or not (sharing condition)

Study 2 – rating importance of accuracy in sharing 
- 401 participants recruited from Lucid
- Asked to rate the importance of accuracy in sharing content on social media compared to other factors

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online - sharing and accuracy studies

Pennycook, G., Epstein, Z., Mosleh, M., Arechar, A. A., Eckles, D., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online. Nature, 592(7855), 590-595. https://psyarxiv.com/3n9u8 

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