- Increased use of misinformation interventions and labeling on social media
- Banners should be carefully designed to look very different ads to prevent users from ignoring them
- Future research studying other side effects of interventions
- Survey other populations (personal networks consisted of people in academia and with interests in cybersecurity) 

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- Social media interventions are not as effective as other strategies used to address and discredit misinformation 
- Most participants (39.6%) relied on web search when seeking accurate information, and only 4.2% of the participants said the misinformation intervention was the only resource they used to confirm the false information 
- Interventions specific to posts, such as labeling posts as containing “False Information,” were more effective than general banners warning users of misinformation
- Participants generally had positive to neutral sentiments towards social media misinformation intervention 
- 35.3% of the participants corrected misinformation while 54.62% did nothing 

Social Media COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions Viewed Positively, But Have Limited Impact Results

Geeng, C., Francisco, T., West, J., & Roesner, F. (2020). Social Media COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions Viewed Positively, But Have Limited Impact. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11055. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11055

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