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'Disputed' Tag Hardly Deters Facebook News Readers

  • Politico, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:14 PM
On Facebook, tagging false news stories as “disputed by third party fact-checkers” has a minimal effect on reader perceptions, Politico reports, citing a study by Yale University researchers. “Overall, the existence of ‘disputed’ tags made participants just 3.7 percentage points more likely to correctly judge headlines as false.”

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