Horne, Benjamin D.
Nevo, Dorit
Article History
Received: 3 October 2024
Accepted: 10 April 2025
First Online: 22 April 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All research was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations applicable when human participants are involved (Declaration of Helsinki). The research was approved by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Human Research Protections Program (HRPP), which determined that the application was eligible for exempt status under 45 CFR 46.104.d, Category 2 (). Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects. All subjects were 18 years old or above. We followed best practices for conducting misinformation research58. For instance, given the experiment used real information, all participants went through a debriefing, in which they were presented with information about the experiment, the veracity of headlines, and an explanation of how veracity was determined for each headline.