After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook began putting warning tags on news stories fact-checkers judged to be false. But there's a catch: Tagging some stories as false makes readers more willing to believe other ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2020
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Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, debates have raged about the reach of so-called "fake news" websites and the role they played during the campaign. A study published in Nature Human Behaviour finds that the reach ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2020
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In the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an unusual experiment suggested that it might be possible to influence American voters to adopt less polarized positions.
Political science
Feb 5, 2020
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Throughout most of 2016, a significant percentage of the American public believed that the winner of the November 2016 presidential election would be a woman—Hillary Clinton.
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2020
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A new study led by University of Toronto public health researchers suggests rising short-term mortality rates among white Americans "seems driven principally by anxiety among whites about losing social status," even though ...
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2019
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Despite mounting attention to the threat of "fake news" on the internet and efforts nationwide to improve digital media literacy, high school students still have difficulty discerning fact from fiction online, according to ...
Education
Nov 19, 2019
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With the presidential election a year away, pollsters will barrage the country with poll questions to get the pulse of the voters about the candidates.
Political science
Nov 7, 2019
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Concerns over voter fraud have surged in recent years, especially after federal officials reported that Russian hackers attempted to access voter records in the 2016 presidential election. Administrative voting errors have ...
Political science
Nov 5, 2019
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Researchers now have a better idea of why people who rely on partisan news outlets are more likely to believe falsehoods about political opponents.
Political science
Oct 16, 2019
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If you want to convince people not to trust an inaccurate political post on Facebook, labeling it as satire can help, a new study finds.
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2019
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