To combat false news, correct after reading
Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT, with images courtesy of Twitter and Facebook Previous image Next image The battle to stop false news and online misinformation is not going to end any time soon, but a new finding from MIT scholars may help ease the problem. In an experiment, the researchers discovered that fact-checking labels, when attached to online news headlines, actually work better after people read false headlines, compared to when they precede the headline or accompany it. “We found that whether a false claim was corrected before people read...
Source: mit.edu