Harris Elizabeth A, DeMora Stephanie L, Albarracín Dolores
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Harv Kennedy Sch Misinformation Rev. 2024 Jun;5(3). doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-149. Epub 2024 Jun 25.
For the last decade, policymakers, journalists, and scientists have continued to alert us of the threat of misinformation for making sound decisions in the political, health, and environmental domains. In this study, we evaluate whether perceiving misinformation as a threat affects media use, particularly considering selection of media sources that are politically aligned. We show which groups are more likely to be concerned about misinformation and find experimental and correlational evidence of an impact of concern on greater use of politically aligned sources among Democrats. We also found no evidence that perceiving higher ability to detect misinformation decreases this association.
在过去十年里，政策制定者、记者和科学家不断提醒我们，错误信息会对在政治、健康和环境领域做出明智决策构成威胁。在本研究中，我们评估将错误信息视为一种威胁是否会影响媒体使用情况，尤其要考虑对政治立场一致的媒体来源的选择。我们展示了哪些群体更有可能担心错误信息，并找到了实验和相关证据，证明这种担忧会对民主党人更多地使用政治立场一致的来源产生影响。我们还没有发现证据表明，认为自己检测错误信息的能力越强，这种关联就会减弱。
