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Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news
This article seeks to quantify the extent to which Americans hold beliefs that are consistent with interpreting satiric news literally, and to assess whether factors known to promote misperceptions work differently depending on whether the source of the misperception is satire. We also test the robu...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36656828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278639 |
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author | Poulsen, Shannon H. Bond, Robert M. Garrett, R. Kelly |
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description | This article seeks to quantify the extent to which Americans hold beliefs that are consistent with interpreting satiric news literally, and to assess whether factors known to promote misperceptions work differently depending on whether the source of the misperception is satire. We also test the robustness of those factors across a diverse set of real-world falsehoods. The study uses secondary data analysis, relying on data drawn from a 12-wave six-month panel conducted in 2019. Analyses focus on participants’ beliefs about 120 falsehoods derived from high-profile political content in circulation before each survey wave, including 48 based on satiric news. A non-trivial number of participants believed claims originating in satire, but it is less than the proportion who believed falsehoods derived from other misleading content. Results also confirm the robustness of established predictors of misperceptions while demonstrating that the associations differ in magnitude between satiric and non-satiric news. |
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spelling | pubmed-98515292023-01-20 Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news Poulsen, Shannon H. Bond, Robert M. Garrett, R. Kelly PLoS One Research Article This article seeks to quantify the extent to which Americans hold beliefs that are consistent with interpreting satiric news literally, and to assess whether factors known to promote misperceptions work differently depending on whether the source of the misperception is satire. We also test the robustness of those factors across a diverse set of real-world falsehoods. The study uses secondary data analysis, relying on data drawn from a 12-wave six-month panel conducted in 2019. Analyses focus on participants’ beliefs about 120 falsehoods derived from high-profile political content in circulation before each survey wave, including 48 based on satiric news. A non-trivial number of participants believed claims originating in satire, but it is less than the proportion who believed falsehoods derived from other misleading content. Results also confirm the robustness of established predictors of misperceptions while demonstrating that the associations differ in magnitude between satiric and non-satiric news. Public Library of Science 2023-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9851529/ /pubmed/36656828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278639 Text en © 2023 Poulsen et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Poulsen, Shannon H. Bond, Robert M. Garrett, R. Kelly Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title | Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title_full | Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title_fullStr | Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title_short | Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
title_sort | comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36656828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278639 |
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