Articles By
Richard Fletcher
The small effects of short user corrections on misinformation in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom
Sacha Altay, Simge Andı, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher
How effective are user corrections in combatting misinformation on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve their effectiveness? We conducted a pre-registered online experiment on representative samples of the online population in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom (N participants = 3,000, N observations = 24,000).
Mapping the website and mobile app audiences of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik, across 21 countries
Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Neil Thurman and Richard Fletcher
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, policymakers worldwide have taken measures to curb the reach of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik. Mapping the audiences of these outlets in 21 countries, we show that in the quarter before the invasion, at least via their official websites and mobile apps, neither outlet reached more than 5% of the digital populations of any of these countries each month.