
Chiara Drolsbach
@chrdrlsbch
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant @jlugiessen
#CSS #misinformation #socialmedia #economicpolicy
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16-08-2021 14:13:16
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.Chiara Drolsbach presents her work on the virality of tweets that receive ‘community notes’. Tweets perceived as believable receive more retweets (different from previous results considering professional fact-checks) arxiv.org/abs/2205.13673


In addition the study Bloomberg cites, a recent study found Community Notes were perceived as significantly more trustworthy than traditional, simple misinformation flags — across the political spectrum! And had a greater effect on improving people’s identification of misleading





🚨New Paper in PNAS Nexus : “Community Notes Increase Trust in Fact-Checking on Social Media”🚨 Are users more likely to trust expert fact-checkers or their peers? 🤔 👉Our study shows there's almost no difference. 👉Instead, *context* is what really helps to build trust! 🧵


People trust "community notes" more than flags to warn against misinformation because of the additional context rather than source trust, with results holding across partisanship, finds Chiara Drolsbach Solovev Nicolas Pröllochs in PNAS Nexus doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…


Gegen Misinformation und Fake News in sozialen Medien sollen Faktenchecks helfen. Aber funktionieren sie? Darüber — und warum Warnhinweise alleine nicht ausreichend sind — haben wir anlässlich unserer neuen Studie mit der Frankfurter Allgemeine gesprochen. w/ Nicolas Pröllochs

