{"id":90456,"date":"2019-05-08T12:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/source-credibility-is-key-to-derailing-fake-news"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:44:36","slug":"source-credibility-is-key-to-derailing-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/source-credibility-is-key-to-derailing-fake-news","title":{"rendered":"Source credibility is key to derailing fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/source-credibility-is-key-to-derailing-fake-news2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fake news is a threat to American democratic institutions and false information can have far-reaching effects. A new study provides a roadmap for dealing with fake news.<\/p>\n<p>Research published in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> provides new evidence that people\u2019s beliefs about the source of information affects how they take in that information, even at the level of their automatic responses. They also found that new information can modify or even undo existing impressions caused by fake news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to know whether offering information about the source of news matters for people\u2019s gut-level, automatic reactions,\u201d said Melissa Ferguson, co-author on the paper and psychology professor at Cornell University. \u201cDoes knowing that something is fake have lingering pernicious effects that can later shape and influence our thoughts and behavior toward the person? Our studies suggest that establishing credibility for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/news+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">news sources<\/a> is the right policy to combat <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fake+news\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fake news<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-source-credibility-key-derailing-fake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news is a threat to American democratic institutions and false information can have far-reaching effects. A new study provides a roadmap for dealing with fake news. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides new evidence that people\u2019s beliefs about the source of information affects how they take in that information, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}