Community notes increase trust in fact-checking on social media

dc.contributor.authorDrolsbach, Chiara Patricia
dc.contributor.authorSolovev, Kirill
dc.contributor.authorPröllochs, Nicolas
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-12T13:03:15Z
dc.date.available2024-11-12T13:03:15Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractCommunity-based fact-checking is a promising approach to fact-check social media content at scale. However, an understanding of whether users trust community fact-checks is missing. Here, we presented Americans with 36 misleading and nonmisleading social media posts and assessed their trust in different types of fact-checking interventions. Participants were randomly assigned to treatments where misleading content was either accompanied by simple (i.e. context-free) misinformation flags in different formats (expert flags or community flags), or by textual “community notes” explaining why the fact-checked post was misleading. Across both sides of the political spectrum, community notes were perceived as significantly more trustworthy than simple misinformation flags. Our results further suggest that the higher trustworthiness primarily stemmed from the context provided in community notes (i.e. fact-checking explanations) rather than generally higher trust towards community fact-checkers. Community notes also improved the identification of misleading posts. In sum, our work implies that context matters in fact-checking and that community notes might be an effective approach to mitigate trust issues with simple misinformation flags.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); ROR-ID:018mejw64
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de/handle/jlupub/19779
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-19136
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddcddc:330
dc.titleCommunity notes increase trust in fact-checking on social media
dc.typearticle
local.affiliationFB 02 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
local.projectgrant 455368471
local.source.articlenumberpgae217
local.source.epage14
local.source.journaltitlePNAS nexus
local.source.number7
local.source.spage1
local.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae217
local.source.volume3

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