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“Fake news” may have limited effects beyond increasing beliefs in false claims

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posted on 2025-08-01, 11:37 authored by AM Guess, D Lockett, B Lyons, JM Montgomery, B Nyhan, J Reifler
Since 2016, there has been an explosion of interest in misinformation and its role in elections. Research by news outlets, government agencies, and academics alike has shown that millions of Americans have been exposed to dubious political news online. However, relatively little research has focused on documenting the effects of consuming this content. Our results suggest that many claims about the effects of exposure to false news may be overstated, or, at the very least, misunderstood.

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682758

Democracy Fund

European Union Horizon 2020

Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College

Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, Washington University, St. Louis.

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© 2020. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are properly credited.

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This is the final version. Available from the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy via the DOI in this record Data availability: The data and code necessary to replicate all the findings in this article will be made available on Dataverse upon publication of this article. Per our human subjects protocols, we will protect respondent privacy by only including individual-level summary data of respondents’ web consumption (e.g., number of untrustworthy websites visited) in the replication data.

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Journal

HKS Misinformation Review

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Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

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  • Version of Record

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en

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2021-02-18T12:08:54Z

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2021-02-18T12:12:20Z

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Vol. 1 (1)

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  • Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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