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NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics
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We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
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Can searching for false news increase belief in misinformation? Yes, by approximately 20 percent, according to our new paper, out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. In addition, this phenomenon is concentrated among individuals for whom search engines return lower quality information. 👇🧵1/
Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity - Nature
Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.
It can feel hard to figure out what's real and what's not online, and this has become more relevant in the age of AI and X. What's the first thing most people do when they see news they're not sure about? They search for it, generally on Google. It turns out that may not help as much as we think. 2/
NC
NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics
@csmapnyu.org
We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
csmapnyu.org/links
1.1k followers226 following258 posts