Applying “misinformation” labels to posts on social media has unintended consequences, according to a new social psychology study.
The research, published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, shows that social-media tags added to posts disputing the result of the 2020 election had little effect on most people’s beliefs about the election and, in the case of Trump supporters, actually helped solidify their belief that the election was stolen.
The study took a sample of just over a thousand US adults who were recruited through CloudResearch, a participant-sourcing platform. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the first condition, participants were shown four tweets from Donald Trump claiming election fraud. These tweets had tags that indicated the claims were unverified. In the second condition (the control group), participants saw the same tweets without any warning tags.
Participants were then asked to rate the tweets on a seven-point scale according to how truthful they believed the statements to be. They were also asked about their views on election fraud and the fairness of the 2020 election, and completed a short factual test about political events that was designed to assess their general political knowledge.
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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