Articles By
Antonio A. Arechar
Digital literacy is associated with more discerning accuracy judgments but not sharing intentions
Nathaniel Sirlin, Ziv Epstein, Antonio A. Arechar and David G. Rand
It has been widely argued that social media users with low digital literacy—who lack fluency with basic technological concepts related to the internet—are more likely to fall for online misinformation, but surprisingly little research has examined this association empirically. In a large survey experiment involving true and false news posts about politics and COVID-19, we found that digital literacy is indeed an important predictor of the ability to tell truth from falsehood when judging headline accuracy.