Progress in the burgeoning field of misinformation research requires some degree of consensus about what constitutes an effective intervention to combat misinformation. We differentiate between research designs that are used to evaluate interventions and recommend one that measures how well people discern between true and false content.
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Guay, B., Berinsky, A.J., Pennycook, G. et al. How to think about whether misinformation interventions work. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1231–1233 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01667-w
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