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Political bias indicators and perceptions of news
INTRODUCTION: Recently, a variety of political bias indicators for social and news media have come to market to alert news consumers to the credibility and political bias of their sources. However, the effects of political bias indicators on how people consume news is unknown. Creators of bias indic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10169703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37179873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1078966 |
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author | Bruchmann, Kathryn Vincent, Subramaniam Folks, Alexandra |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Recently, a variety of political bias indicators for social and news media have come to market to alert news consumers to the credibility and political bias of their sources. However, the effects of political bias indicators on how people consume news is unknown. Creators of bias indicators assume people will use the apps and extensions to become less biased news-consumers; however, it is also possible that people would use bias indicators to confirm their previous worldview and become more biased in their perceptions of news. METHODS: Across two studies, we tested how political bias indicators influence perceptions of news articles without partisan bias (Study 1, N = 394) and articles with partisan bias (Study 2, N = 616). Participants read news articles with or without political bias indicators present and rated the articles on their perceived political bias and credibility. RESULTS: Overall, we found no consistent evidence that bias indicators influence perceptions of credibility or bias in news. However, in Study 2, there was some evidence that participants planned to use bias indicators in the future to become more biased in their future news article selection. DISCUSSION: These data shed light on the (in) effectiveness of interventions against blindly consuming biased news and media. |
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spelling | pubmed-101697032023-05-11 Political bias indicators and perceptions of news Bruchmann, Kathryn Vincent, Subramaniam Folks, Alexandra Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: Recently, a variety of political bias indicators for social and news media have come to market to alert news consumers to the credibility and political bias of their sources. However, the effects of political bias indicators on how people consume news is unknown. Creators of bias indicators assume people will use the apps and extensions to become less biased news-consumers; however, it is also possible that people would use bias indicators to confirm their previous worldview and become more biased in their perceptions of news. METHODS: Across two studies, we tested how political bias indicators influence perceptions of news articles without partisan bias (Study 1, N = 394) and articles with partisan bias (Study 2, N = 616). Participants read news articles with or without political bias indicators present and rated the articles on their perceived political bias and credibility. RESULTS: Overall, we found no consistent evidence that bias indicators influence perceptions of credibility or bias in news. However, in Study 2, there was some evidence that participants planned to use bias indicators in the future to become more biased in their future news article selection. DISCUSSION: These data shed light on the (in) effectiveness of interventions against blindly consuming biased news and media. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10169703/ /pubmed/37179873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1078966 Text en Copyright © 2023 Bruchmann, Vincent and Folks. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Bruchmann, Kathryn Vincent, Subramaniam Folks, Alexandra Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title | Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title_full | Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title_fullStr | Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title_full_unstemmed | Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title_short | Political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
title_sort | political bias indicators and perceptions of news |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10169703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37179873 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1078966 |
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