Seeking Truth: Incentivizing Peer to Peer Correction of Online Misinformation

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Public Opinion, Misinformation, and Public Attitudes

Brief Overview

We design and test an intervention to increase peer-to-peer correction of online misinformation. We embed descriptive and injunctive social norm nudges in real social media posts to motivate correction of the misinformation in posts.

Authors

• Kamya Yadav, University of California-Berkeley

• Rachel Xu, Google