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You’re definitely wrong, maybe: Correction style has minimal effect on corrections of misinformation online Methodology

Recruited 2,228 participants from Lucid, an online sampling platform
Participants were shown 28 randomly selected actual headlines from social media - half of the headlines contained accurate information obtained from mainstream news outlets and the other half contained fake news collected from Snopes; half of the headlines were preferred by the Democratic Party and the other half by the Republican Party
After seeing a headline, participants had to decide if they want to share it or not – sharing a correct headline or not sharing a fake headline meant the participants could continue with the next headlines; incorrectly sharing fake news results in no more headlines shown
Participants that end up not sharing any fake news at all were excluded from the corrective measures part of the study

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Updated 2021-05-26

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