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Title Fake News, Immigration, and Opinion Polarization
Authors Borella, C.A.
Rossinelli, D.
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Keywords fake news
opinion polarization
immigration
backfire effect
validation myopia
post-truth
Type Article
Date of Issue 2017
URI http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/66314
Publisher Sumy State University
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Citation Borella, C.A., Rossinelli, D. (2017). Fake News, Immigration, and Opinion Polarization. SocioEconomic Challenges, 1(4), 59-72. DOI: 10.21272sec.1(4).59-72.2017
Abstract Nowadays, it is hard to venture online without coming across a heated discussion over “Fake News”; as a result, people are finding hardE times moving through an entirely new distorted era of misinfor-mation and biased news. In this paper, we investigate the effect of fake news on people’s opinion polarization on a hot topic – such as immigration – through an experiment. We show that “Backfire Effect” and a cognitive bias we named “Validation Myopia” occur when people read Fake news in-dependently if they believe them or not. In addition, we show how Fake news affect opinion polariza-tion and we provide evidence that the Backfire Effect has a higher magnitude than its counterpart (i.e. validation myopia). Finally we show that the emotion-driven effect of fake news can be neutralized thanks to ex-ante signaling of the inaccuracy of fake news.
Appears in Collections: SocioEconomic Challenges (SEC)

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