Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility

G.L.A. van der Meer, Toni; Hameleers, Michael; Ohme, Jakob

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2023.2187652

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Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility

Published in Journalism Studies • Mar 16, 2023

Authors:

Toni G.L.A. van der Meer

Michael Hameleers

Jakob Ohme

Abstract

In the battle against misinformation, do negative spillover effects of communicative efforts intended to protect audiences from inaccurate information exist? Given the relatively limited prevalence of misinformation in people’s news diets, this study explores if the heightened salience of misinforma...

Subject

Misinformation

Credibility

Salience (neuroscience)

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