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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online - Twitter intervention study participants

Targeted a total of 11,364 Twitter accounts with large followings
Used tweets from Breitbart account through Twitter REST API to use
Identified 136,379 users who retweeted Breitbart tweets using Twitter API
Created experimental accounts to follow the chosen accounts in 3 waves
8.3% of the accounts (11,364 users) followed back
After excluding accounts that seem like bots and users who have not retweeted from a pre-identified list of untrustworthy sources in the last 2 weeks, left with 5,379 users in the 3 waves
Accounts in the experiment had more followers, followings, favorited tweets and were older and more conservative than the average Twitter user (less likely to be affected by message interventions)

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Updated 2021-07-01

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