"Partisan or party-shun?" : When fact-checking meets partisanship
This experimental study aims to establish if the source of a fact check has an impact on its believability. Using a between-subjects design, 200 respondents were each presented with two mocked-up fake news Facebook posts that were manipulated by either a government or presumed non-government fact-ch...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1532042023-03-05T16:25:34Z "Partisan or party-shun?" : When fact-checking meets partisanship Goh, Bryan Wei Ming Edson C. Tandoc Jr. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information edson@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Mass media::Media law, ethics and policy This experimental study aims to establish if the source of a fact check has an impact on its believability. Using a between-subjects design, 200 respondents were each presented with two mocked-up fake news Facebook posts that were manipulated by either a government or presumed non-government fact-checking effort. After viewing each Facebook post with its accompanied fact-check, respondents were asked questions which elicited their thoughts about the pieces of fake news and their fact-checks. A moderated mediation analysis found that a government fact-check was seen as less credible than a non-government fact-check, and that it was also thus less believable. Conversely, a non-government fact-check was seen as more credible than a non-government fact-check and thus, more believable. The results suggest that the government fact-check efforts might not be as effective as intended due to the impression of its credibility and as a result, the believability of its fact-check. Further implications of such findings and recommendations for future studies are also discussed. Master of Mass Communication 2021-11-15T06:51:50Z 2021-11-15T06:51:50Z 2021 Thesis-Master by Coursework Goh, B. W. M. (2021). "Partisan or party-shun?" : When fact-checking meets partisanship. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153204 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153204 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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This experimental study aims to establish if the source of a fact check has an impact on its believability. Using a between-subjects design, 200 respondents were each presented with two mocked-up fake news Facebook posts that were manipulated by either a government or presumed non-government fact-checking effort. After viewing each Facebook post with its accompanied fact-check, respondents were asked questions which elicited their thoughts about the pieces of fake news and their fact-checks. A moderated mediation analysis found that a government fact-check was seen as less credible than a non-government fact-check, and that it was also thus less believable. Conversely, a non-government fact-check was seen as more credible than a non-government fact-check and thus, more believable. The results suggest that the government fact-check efforts might not be as effective as intended due to the impression of its credibility and as a result, the believability of its fact-check. Further implications of such findings and recommendations for future studies are also discussed. |
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