Debunking “Fake News” on Social Media: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects of Fact Checking and Media Literacy Interventions
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Covid; Facebook; fact checking; fake news; media literacy; misinformation; nutrition; social media; supplements; survey experiment; vaccine;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
- Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-08-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-PAY-2023-08-28 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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