Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

• Published in: Political behavior Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 939 - 960
• Main Authors: Nyhan, Brendan, Porter, Ethan, Reifler, Jason, Wood, Thomas J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Attitudes; Candidates; Citizens; Elections; Experiments; Journalists; Original Paper; Political campaigns; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Studies; Politicians; Presidential elections; Public opinion; Respondents; Sociology; Speech; Trump, Donald J; Voting; United States > US; Misinformation; Fact checking; Factual misconception; Public opinion; Corrections; Backfire effect

Are citizens willing to accept journalistic fact-checks of misleading claims from candidates they support and to update their attitudes about those candidates? Previous studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of exposure to counter-attitudinal information. As fact-checking has...