Read on Twitter
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 1 On the 2019 UK general election “Fewer than 2% of links shared on Twitter during our data collection period were identified as Junk News… Professional News Content constituted over 57% of total traffic.” https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/uk-election-memo-2019/
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 2 On the 2019 European elections “disinformation outlets are largely ignored by the other actors and hence play a peripheral role in online political discussions” https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12039 @matteo_cinelli h/t @acerbialberto
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 3 Russian trolls have likely had no influence on US social media users https://twitter.com/chris_bail/status/1199058772515262466 @chris_bail h/t @andyguess
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 4 Fake accounts can get (often also fake) interactions, but not much else (“Generating social media interactions is easy; mobilizing activists and persuading voters is hard.”) https://mediawell.ssrc.org/expert-reflections/on-digital-disinformation-and-democratic-myths/
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 5 Those who spread fake news pay a hefty reputational price https://psyarxiv.com/82r6q
With @Sacha_Altay and Anne-Sophie Hacquin
With @Sacha_Altay and Anne-Sophie Hacquin
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 6 See also the work of @sinanaral and @deaneckles (e.g. https://twitter.com/sinanaral/status/1167142057724563456)
Fake news aren’t that big a deal 7 https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1246811501962428416
Fake news isn't that big a deal 8 Coronavirus edition https://twitter.com/cphoffmann/status/1247546426630049798
Fake news isn't that big a deal 9 some pushback, and good pushback against the pushback https://twitter.com/Sander_vdLinden/status/1247146391002132480
Fake news isn't that big a deal 10 but it's studied as if it were https://twitter.com/hugoreasoning/status/1247576735652216833
Fake news isn't that big a deal 11 during the 2017 French presidential campaign, 179 debunked stories identified by Le Monde... shared in 0.01% of tweets h/t @acerbialberto https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201879
(Context) this thread contains sources that I had missed, or that are too recent to have been cited in my last book. If you want to know more about why fake news (and propaganda, advertising, political campaigns) don't convince many people, check it out https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/not-born-yesterday
Fake news isn't that big a deal 12 "no main effect of exposure to DFN [digital fake news] on participants’ candidate evaluations or vote choice" h/t @cphoffmann https://twitter.com/CharlieBeckett/status/1261202804946894848
Fake news isn't that big a deal 13 Most people *might* hear about fake news through the mainstream media https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1263833680360996869?s=20
Fake news isn't that big a deal 14/1 How to interpret polls showing that, say, 30% of Americans believe in a given fake news? @slatestarcodex suggests that, for some questions at least, about 1/3 of people will say they believe even in entirely made up conspiracy theories
Fake news isn't that big a deal 14/2 there's no way to answer 'I don't know', and so the answers might just reflect a generic distrust of gov't... @slatestarcodex offers a v. convincing analogy. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/
Fake news isn't that big a deal 14/3 we should take polling numbers very carefully when it comes to beliefs in conspiracy theories and other fake news
