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The Effects Of Counterfactual Priming On Belief In Fake News, Sean Bogart
The Effects Of Counterfactual Priming On Belief In Fake News, Sean Bogart
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Fake news overwhelmed social media platforms, like Twitter and Facebook, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This new, digital brand of fake news that can be spread much more rapidly than older forms, is coupled with a lack of academic research into its effects, the reasons that certain individuals trust its veracity, and methods of decreasing overall belief in fake news. Confirmation bias is one of several reasons why individuals fall victim to fake news; although there are a few strategies that can be used to combat the negative effects of confirmation bias; counterfactual reasoning is one that has demonstrated …