motivated reasoning

Framing fact-checks as a “confirmation” increases engagement with corrections of misinformation: a four-country study

Previous research has extensively investigated why users spread misinformation online, while less attention has been given to the motivations behind sharing fact-checks. This article reports a four-country survey experiment assessing the influence of …

Truth be told: Cognitive moderators of selective sharing of fact-checks on social media

When do users share fact-checks on social media? We describe a survey experiment conducted during the 2019 election in Argentina measuring the propensity of voters to share corrections to political misinformation that randomly confirm or challenge …