Finally, we discuss implications for designing more effective interventions against misinformation.

I recommend and use EndNote (Mac or Windows) to simplify this. Our results indicate that though fact-checking interventions are most commonly issued by strangers, they are more likely to draw user attention and responses when they come from friends. 43,980 (per academic year tuition will be distributed between fall, spring, and summer semesters) Master of Laws (LLM) Online. If you are working from home you will need to use the NEU library proxy to access many. Using approximately 1,600 interventions observed on Twitter between 20, we examine the contexts and consequences of fact-checking interventions.We focus in particular on the social relationship between the individual who issues the fact-check and the individual whose facts are challenged. of English, Northeastern University : Distributed by Northeastern. While laboratory research suggests such interventions are not effective in persuading people to abandon false ideas, little work considers how such interventions are actually deployed in real-world conversations. Fact-checking interventions, in which users cite fact-checking websites such as and, are a strategy users can employ to refute false claims made by their peers. The prevalence of misinformation within social media and online communities can undermine public security and distract attention from important issues. Fact-checking, misinformation, twitter Abstract

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