Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility

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dc.contributor.authorVan Der Meer, Toni G. L. A.
dc.contributor.authorHameleers, Michael
dc.contributor.authorOhme, Jakob
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T16:17:27Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T16:17:27Z
dc.date.collected2022-01
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn the battle against misinformation, do negative spillover effects of communicative efforts intended to protect audiences from inaccurate information exist? Given the relatively limited prevalence of misinformation in people’s news diets, this study explores if the heightened salience of misinformation as a persistent societal threat can have an unintended spillover effect by decreasing the credibility of factually accurate news. Using an experimental design (N = 1305), we test whether credibility ratings of factually accurate news are subject to exposure to misinformation, corrective information, misinformation warnings, and news media literacy (NML) interventions relativizing the misinformation threat. Findings suggest that efforts like warning about the threat of misinformation can prime general distrust in authentic news, hinting toward a deception bias in the context of fear of misinformation being salient. Next, the successfulness of NML interventions is not straight forward if it comes to avoiding that the salience of misinformation distorts people’s creditability accuracy. We conclude that the threats of the misinformation order may not just be remedied by fighting false information, but also by reestablishing trust in legitimate news.en
dc.identifier.citationvan der Meer, T. G. L. A., Hameleers, M., & Ohme, J. (2023). Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility. Journalism Studies, 24(6), 803–823. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2187652
dc.identifier.issn1461-670X
dc.identifier.issn1469-9699
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/438
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMisinformation
dc.subjectnews credibility
dc.subjectnews media literacy
dc.subjectcorrective information
dc.subjectmisinformation warning
dc.subjectdeception bias
dc.titleCan Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1080/1461670X.2023.2187652
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleJournalism Studies
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend823
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart803
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2187652
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume24
local.researchgroupDynamiken digitaler Nachrichtenvermittlung
local.researchtopicDigitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen
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