...Babette Hermans; Cato Waeterloos; Michaël Opgenhaffen Purpose Fact-checks have emerged as tools to correct misinformation, with mainly experimental research demonstrating their positive effects. Additionally, the main focus of fact-check studies lies on specific knowledge correction, while fact...

...Wei Wang; Danny Yihan Jia; Maria Elizabeth Grabe Purpose Existing evidence suggests that in a politically polarized country like the United States, partisanship frequently diminishes the effectiveness of fact-checks on falsehoods. Here we tested if debunking sources interact with cognitive...

...Zhenni Ni; Yuxing Qian; Shuaipu Chen; Marie-Christine Jaulent; Cedric Bousquet Purpose This study aims to evaluate the performance of LLMs with various prompt engineering strategies in the context of health fact-checking. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by Dual Process Theory, we...

...Anfan Chen; Zhuo Chen; Aaron Yikai Ng Purpose This study examines the role of crowd wisdom in misinformation correction. Going beyond fact-checking, we investigate the mechanisms underlying laypeople’s participation in misinformation correction. Drawing upon the Norm Activation Model (NAM...

...Stephanie Jean Tsang; Jingwei Zheng; Wenshu Li; Mistura Adebusola Salaudeen Purpose Given the rapid growth in efforts on misinformation correction, the study aims to test how evidence type and veracity interact with news agreement on the effectiveness of fact-checking on how well a corrective...

...Bumsoo Kim; Eric Cooks; Yonghwan Kim Purpose Employing the cognitive mediation model, the study aims to examine a moderated-mediation mechanism of social media news use contingent upon elaboration on political knowledge through fact-checking – specifically, the interaction effect of social media...