COVID-19 Misinformation Consumption is Minimal, Has Minimal Effects, And Does Not Prevent Fact-Checks from Working

• In Event: New Frontiers in Media Research

Brief Overview

We leverage web and mobile browsing history data linked to a survey with an embedded experiment to examine patterns and effects of COVID and general news consumption on downstream COVID beliefs.

Authors

• John Carey, Dartmouth College

• Andy Guess, Princeton University

• Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College

• Joseph Phillips, University of Exeter

• Jason Reifler, University of Exeter