National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Public Underst Sci. 2024 Jul;33(5):587-603. doi: 10.1177/09636625231215979. Epub 2023 Dec 31.
To examine how different features of corrective messages moderate individuals' attitudes toward misinformation on social media, a 2 (misinformation source credibility: high vs low) × 2 (corrective message source: algorithmic vs peer correction) × 2 (correction type: factual elaboration vs simple rebuttal) between-subjects experiment was conducted. To reduce perceived credibility and respondents' attitudes toward the misinformation, peer corrections were more effective than algorithmic corrections for misinformation from a source with lower credibility; for misinformation from a highly credible source, the superiority effect of peer corrections was still significant on perceived credibility but not on respondents' attitudes toward the misinformation. For the fact-checking tendency, we did not find a robust effect about how different features of corrective messages interacted. Our findings provide important insights into message design in combatting misinformation on social media.
为了研究更正信息的不同特征如何调节个体对社交媒体上错误信息的态度，进行了一项 2（错误信息来源可信度：高与低）×2（更正信息来源：算法与同伴更正）×2（更正类型：事实阐述与简单反驳）的被试间实验。为了降低感知可信度和受访者对错误信息的态度，同伴更正对于来自可信度较低的信息源的错误信息比对算法更正更有效；对于来自高可信度来源的错误信息，同伴更正的优势效应在感知可信度上仍然显著，但在受访者对错误信息的态度上则不显著。对于事实核查倾向，我们没有发现更正信息的不同特征如何相互作用的显著效果。我们的研究结果为社交媒体上错误信息的信息设计提供了重要的见解。
