Three prophylactic interventions to counter fake news on social media
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08929v1
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 05:24:13 GMT
- Title: Three prophylactic interventions to counter fake news on social media
- Authors: David A. Eccles, Tilman Dingler
- Abstract summary: We propose interventions that focus on individual user empowerment and social media structural change.
We investigate interventions that result in greater user elaboration (cognitive effort) before exposure to fake news.
Each intervention promises to illicit greater cognitive effort in message evaluation and reduce the likelihood of creating, sharing, liking and consuming 'fake news'
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: Fake news on Social Media undermines democratic institutions and processes.
Especially since 2016, researchers from many disciplines have focussed on ways
to address the phenomenon. Much of the research focus to date has been on
identification and understanding the nature of the phenomenon in and between
social networks and of a rather reactive nature. We propose interventions that
focus on individual user empowerment, and social media structural change that
is prophylactic (pre exposure), rather than therapeutic (post exposure) with
the goal of reducing the population exposed to fake news. We investigate
interventions that result in greater user elaboration (cognitive effort) before
exposure to fake news. We propose three interventions i) psychological
inoculation, ii) fostering digital and media literacy and iii) imposition of
user transaction costs. Each intervention promises to illicit greater cognitive
effort in message evaluation and reduce the likelihood of creating, sharing,
liking and consuming 'fake news'.
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