Applying “misinformation” labels to posts on social media has unintended consequences, according to a new social psychology study.
The research, published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, shows that social-media tags added to posts disputing the result of the 2020 election had little effect on most people’s beliefs about the election and, in the case of Trump supporters, actually helped solidify their belief that the election was stolen.
The study took a sample of just over a thousand US adults who were recruited through CloudResearch, a participant-sourcing platform. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the first condition, participants were shown four tweets from Donald Trump claiming election fraud. These tweets had tags that indicated the claims were unverified. In the second condition (the control group), participants saw the same tweets without any warning tags.
Participants were then asked to rate the tweets on a seven-point scale according to how truthful they believed the statements to be. They were also asked about their views on election fraud and the fairness of the 2020 election, and completed a short factual test about political events that was designed to assess their general political knowledge.
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