Can Digital Literacy Save Us from Fake News? Evidence from the 2018 U.S. midterm election

• In Event: Fake News, False News, and Misinformation

Brief Overview

We use panel data, web traffic data, and embedded experiments to examine the effects of exposure to fake news. Finally, we test whether a digital literacy intervention can improve discernment of veracity.

Authors

• Andrew Guess, Princeton University

• Benjamin A. Lyons, University of Exeter

• Jacob Michael Montgomery, Washington University in St Louis

• Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College

• Jason Reifler, University of Exeter