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Can crowds fix misinformation? Social media corrections: a double-edged sword.
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The Power of the Crowd
how the public can both spoil and improve social media as a source of information
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75 pages
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30 September 2025
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Summary
Taming the Tide: Social Media Corrections and the Fight Against Misinformation
This book explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media.
A sample of more than 170,000 observations across a wide range of topics (COVID, climate change, 5G etc.) is used to test whether social corrections help reduce the perceived accuracy of false news and whether miscorre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009677172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009677179 |
| Series: | Elements in Experimental Political Science |
| Author: | Florian Stöckel, Sabrina Stöckli, Benjamin A. Lyons, Hannah Kroker, Jason Reifler |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 75 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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