The power of the crowd : how the public can both spoil and improve social media as a source of information / Florian Stöckel, Sabrina Stöckli, Benjamin A. Lyons, Hannah Kroker, Jason Reifler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stöckel, Florian, author.

Stöckli, Sabrina, author.

Lyons, Benjamin A., author.

Kroker, Hannah, author.

Reifler, Jason, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in experimental political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disinformation.

Social media.

Public opinion.

Social Media.

Public Opinion.

social media.

Medical Subjects:

Social Media.

Public Opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This Element explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media. A sample of more than 170,000 observations across a wide range of topics (COVID, climate change, 5G etc.) is used to test whether social corrections help reduce the perceived accuracy of false news and whether miscorrections decrease the credibility of true news. Corrections reduce the perceived accuracy of misinformation, but miscorrections can harm perceptions of true news. The Element also assesses the mechanisms of social corrections, finding evidence for recency effects rather than systematic processing. Additional analyses show the characteristics of individuals who have more difficulties identifying false news. Survey data is included on characteristics of people who write comments often. The conclusion highlights that social corrections can mislead, but also work as remedy. The Element ends with best practices for effective corrections."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Misinformation as a challenge for democracy

2. Who believes false news?

3. The core experimental setup

4. Social corrections, miscorrections, and accuracy perceptions

5. Who writes comments?

6. Implications and outlook

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781009677165

1009677160

OCLC:

1533766272

Publisher Number:

CIPO000264432