Articles By
Leticia Bode
Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?
Rongwei Tang, Emily K. Vraga, Leticia Bode and Shelley Boulianne
Observed corrections of misinformation on social media can encourage more accurate beliefs, but for these benefits to occur, corrections must happen. By exploring people’s perceptions of witnessing and performing corrections on social media, we find that many people say they observe and perform corrections across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
Do the right thing: Tone may not affect correction of misinformation on social media
Leticia Bode, Emily K. Vraga and Melissa Tully
An experiment conducted with 610 participants suggests that corrections to misinformation—pointing out information that is wrong or misleading and offering credible information in its place—on social media reduce misperceptions regardless of the correction’s tone (uncivil, affirmational, or neutral). There is also an opportunity to correct secondary but related misperceptions (dealing with the same topic but with a different specific fact) when responding to misinformation on social media.