Beyond Click to Cognition: Effective Interventions for Promoting Examination of False Beliefs in Misinformation

要旨

In the digital information ecosystem, clicks serve as a crucial gateway to fact-checking, yet the essential challenge extends beyond this to fostering cognitive shifts that update entrenched false beliefs. This study investigates effective interventions aimed at encouraging users vulnerable to misinformation, particularly those who tend to avoid incongruent facts, to examine their false beliefs. We conducted an online experiment with 627 participants, comparing metacognitive and ranking interventions. Both interventions successfully improved click behavior, with the metacognitive intervention increasing belief-examining clicks by 14 percentage points and the ranking intervention by 33 percentage points. However, only the metacognitive intervention significantly promoted users' examination of misinformation. This finding underscores the importance of interventions that go beyond merely influencing easily measurable clicks to facilitating thoughtful engagement with fact-checking content. We discuss implications for designing strategies to enhance online fact-checking engagement and mitigate misinformation's societal impact.

著者
Yuko Tanaka
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan
Hiromi Arai
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
Miwa Inuzuka
Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan
Yoichi Takahashi
Tohoku University, sendai shi izumi ku, miyagi ken, Japan
Minao Kukita
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Ryuta Iseki
Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan
Kentaro Inui
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3714243

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714243

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Social Media and Online Influence

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