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

Sent DMs to users that followed the experimental accounts back
Expressed gratitude for following back to simulate a normal Twitter exchange
Users not told they were part of a research study
Did not expect any response from the users
Could only send messages to 20 accounts per day
Users randomly assigned to a day and every 24 hours, a new group of users received a direct message
Obtained the tweets and retweets of users on the day they received the message and checked for any from the list of 60 untrustworthy websites

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Updated 2021-07-01

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