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Chenyan Jia

Journalistic interventions matter: Understanding how Americans perceive fact-checking labels

Chenyan Jia and Taeyoung Lee

While algorithms and crowdsourcing have been increasingly used to debunk or label misinformation on social media, such tasks might be most effective when performed by professional fact checkers or journalists. Drawing on a national survey (N = 1,003), we found that U.S. adults evaluated fact-checking labels created by professional fact checkers as more effective than labels by algorithms and other users. News

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