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Collected Item: “Sharing source-backed information can help reduce COVID-19 misinformation online”

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Sharing source-backed information can help reduce COVID-19 misinformation online

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Text story

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This is a news story from Penn State University by Jessica Hallman. A recent study has shown that user corrections given back and forth on social media has helped reduce the spread of misinformation. Through sharing source-backed information, people were able to pick out fake news easier.

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study, science, misinformation, news, fake news, social media, HST580, ASU

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https://www.psu.edu/news/information-sciences-and-technology/story/sharing-source-backed-information-can-help-reduce-covid/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jessica Hallman

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2022-06-09
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