Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? | HKS Misinformation Review

Harvard University

Lean Left

Mixed Factuality

Other: President and Fellows of Harvard College

Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? | HKS Misinformation Review

A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article, we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformation (including fake news), interventions aimed at reducing