Who Wants to Know?: Information and Fact Check Seeking in Disinformation Environments

• In Event: Misinformation and its discontents

Brief Overview

We explore how perceiving disinformation in the media environment as well as the level of disinformation affects information seeking, seeking fact checks, and attitude updating. We consider individual cognitive style as a moderator of our effects.

Authors

• Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po

• Ryan J. Vander Wielen, Stony Brook University

• Nicole Huffman, Stony Brook University