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Hyper-partisan misinformation has become a major public concern. In order to examine what type of misinformation label can mitigate hyper-partisan misinformation sharing on social media, we conducted a 4 (label type: algorithm, community, third-party fact-checker, and no label) X 2 (post ideology: liberal vs. conservative) between-subjects online e...
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... liberal participants, however, the results were mixed. When liberal participants viewed conservative posts, they perceived third-party fact-checkers' labels as more politically unbiased, and more effective than algorithmic labels; when liberal participants viewed liberal posts, they considered algorithmic labels as more politically unbiased, as shown in Table 7 and Table 8 (in Appendix). ...Similar publications
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