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False Alarm Ethan Porter (George Washington University, Washington DC)

False Alarm By Ethan Porter (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Summary

Does Trump's election mean Americans reflexively resist factual information? Evidence strongly suggests not. Americans across the political spectrum are responsive to factual information, even when facts undercut claims made by their party's politicians. However, being more factually accurate does not generally change people's political beliefs.

False Alarm Summary

False Alarm: The Truth about Political Mistruths in the Trump Era by Ethan Porter (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate. Instead, they become more accurate, even when corrections target co-partisans. Corrections of fake news yield similar results. Among Republicans, Trump's misstatements are less susceptible to corrections than identical misstatements attributed to other Republicans. While we do not observe facts affecting attitudes, multiple instances of misinformation can increase approval of the responsible politician - but corrections can reduce approval by similar amounts. While corrections do not eliminate false beliefs, they reduce the share of inaccurate beliefs among subjects in this study nearly in half.

About Ethan Porter (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Ethan Porter is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, Washington DC. Thomas J. Wood is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Facts, the backfire effect and the 2016 Election; 3. Fake news; 4. Is Trump different?; 5. Conclusion; 6. References.

Additional information

NLS9781108705929
9781108705929
1108705928
False Alarm: The Truth about Political Mistruths in the Trump Era by Ethan Porter (George Washington University, Washington DC)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-10-03
80
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