Fake news : what is its impact? can we do something about it?

Fil: Wasserman, Lucio. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.

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Autor principal: Wasserman, Lucio
Otros Autores: Perez-Truglia, Ricardo
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Publicado: Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía 2021
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10908/18506
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spelling I37-R143-10908-185062022-11-29T15:55:27Z Fake news : what is its impact? can we do something about it? Wasserman, Lucio Perez-Truglia, Ricardo Fil: Wasserman, Lucio. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina. The rise of fake news led to widespread public concerns based on claims that it affects behaviors. Nevertheless, the evidence of the impact of fake news on behaviors is scarce and inconclusive, and there is no consensus on how to deal with the potential negative effects. In this paper we conduct a survey experiment to evaluate the impact of a fake news article concerning environmental activism. Additionally, the effect of a fact-checking article correcting the fake news story is also evaluated. The measured outcomes include beliefs and pro-environmental preferences and behaviors. The treated participants were randomly assigned to either read an extract of the fake news article or of the correction article. The remaining participants conform the control group. We find clear impacts on beliefs: the fake news article increases misperceptions while the correction reduces them. However, our results show small to null effects of both treatments on pro-environmental preferences and behaviors. 2021-08-18T20:53:09Z 2021-08-18T20:53:09Z 2020-12 Tesis info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis info:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría info:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/10908/18506 http://hdl.handle.net/10908/18506 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
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