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Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information?

Published:2022-01-12 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Container-title:Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
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Short-container-title:HKS Misinfo Review

Author:

Acerbi Alberto¹,Altay Sacha²,Mercier Hugo³

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, UK

2. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK

3. Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, PSL University, CNRS, France

Abstract

A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformation (including fake news), interventions aimed at reducing acceptance or spread of such news are bound to have very small effects on the overall quality of the information environment, especially compared to interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources. To make this argument, we simulate the effect that such interventions have on a global information score, which increases when people accept reliable information and decreases when people accept misinformation.

Funder

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Publisher

Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

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