Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians

The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, these agencies face a problem of scalability and require innovative solutio...

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Autores principales: Espina Mairal, Santos, Bustos, Florencia, Solovey, Guillermo, Navajas, Joaquín
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Publicado: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 2023
Materias:
Social Influence
Crowdsourcing
fact-checking
Interactive
Political Speech
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12022
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-120222025-08-11T17:59:12Z Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians Espina Mairal, Santos Bustos, Florencia Solovey, Guillermo Navajas, Joaquín Social Influence Crowdsourcing fact-checking Interactive Political Speech The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, these agencies face a problem of scalability and require innovative solutions to deal with their growing amount of work. While previous studies have shown that crowdsourcing is a promising approach to fact-check news in a scalable manner, it remains unclear whether crowdsourced judgements are useful to verify the speech of politicians. This paper fills that gap by studying the effect of social influence on the accuracy of collective judgements about the veracity of political speech. In this work, we performed two experiments (Study 1: N=180; Study 2: N=240) where participants judged the veracity of 20 politically balanced phrases. Then, they were exposed to social information from politically homogeneous or heterogeneous participants. Finally, they provided revised individual judgements. We found that only heterogeneous social influence increased the accuracy of participants compared to a control condition. Overall, our results uncover the effect of social influence on the accuracy of collective judgements about the veracity of political speech and show how interactive crowdsourcing strategies can help fact-checking agencies La versión final de este preprint se encuentra publicada como artículo en el Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xap0000492 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 2023-09-05T16:27:16Z 2023-09-05T16:27:16Z 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12022 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/ 51 p. application/pdf application/pdf
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Crowdsourcing
fact-checking
Interactive
Political Speech
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Crowdsourcing
fact-checking
Interactive
Political Speech
Espina Mairal, Santos
Bustos, Florencia
Solovey, Guillermo
Navajas, Joaquín
Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
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Political Speech
description The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, these agencies face a problem of scalability and require innovative solutions to deal with their growing amount of work. While previous studies have shown that crowdsourcing is a promising approach to fact-check news in a scalable manner, it remains unclear whether crowdsourced judgements are useful to verify the speech of politicians. This paper fills that gap by studying the effect of social influence on the accuracy of collective judgements about the veracity of political speech. In this work, we performed two experiments (Study 1: N=180; Study 2: N=240) where participants judged the veracity of 20 politically balanced phrases. Then, they were exposed to social information from politically homogeneous or heterogeneous participants. Finally, they provided revised individual judgements. We found that only heterogeneous social influence increased the accuracy of participants compared to a control condition. Overall, our results uncover the effect of social influence on the accuracy of collective judgements about the veracity of political speech and show how interactive crowdsourcing strategies can help fact-checking agencies
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author Espina Mairal, Santos
Bustos, Florencia
Solovey, Guillermo
Navajas, Joaquín
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Solovey, Guillermo
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title Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
title_short Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
title_full Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians
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