Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality
G Pennycook, DG Rand - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Reducing the spread of misinformation, especially on social media, is a major challenge. We
investigate one potential approach: having social media platform algorithms preferentially
display content from news sources that users rate as trustworthy. To do so, we ask whether
crowdsourced trust ratings can effectively differentiate more versus less reliable sources. We
ran two preregistered experiments (n= 1,010 from Mechanical Turk and n= 970 from Lucid)
where individuals rated familiarity with, and trust in, 60 news sources from three …
investigate one potential approach: having social media platform algorithms preferentially
display content from news sources that users rate as trustworthy. To do so, we ask whether
crowdsourced trust ratings can effectively differentiate more versus less reliable sources. We
ran two preregistered experiments (n= 1,010 from Mechanical Turk and n= 970 from Lucid)
where individuals rated familiarity with, and trust in, 60 news sources from three …