News Annotations Effect on Attitude Change to Combat Misinformation

• In Event: Effects of Expert and Elite Cues on Political Beliefs

Brief Overview

We create a Google Chrome extension to annotate the news. In an experimental setting, we vary the type of annotation to assess how that information shapes political attitudes. This has implications for battling misinformation.

Authors

• Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Aiden Roberts, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Hannah Smith, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Stephen Michael Utych, Boise State University