1Cademy - Two Truths and a Lie: Exploring Soft Moderation of COVID-19 Misinformation with Amazon Alexa

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Two Truths and a Lie: Exploring Soft Moderation of COVID-19 Misinformation with Amazon Alexa - Discussion

Overall, when participants heard warning covers spoken by Alexa, they seemed to pick up on that because they saw Alexa as an impartial third-party who was simply conveying the truth, and hence this effort was effective in informing users of misinformation
As for political affiliations, Independents had a greater chance of being skeptical about the warnings repeated by Alexa, whereas Democrats and Republicans generally believed what they heard from Alexa as long as it matched their beliefs
When Alexa informs participants of a warning tag before repeated the tweet content, participants were more likely to believe in the misinformation, regardless of whether the tweet content contains misinformation or not

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Updated 2021-05-16

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