TY - BOOK ID - 85467610 TI - False alarm : the truth about political mistruths in the Trump Era AU - Porter, Ethan AU - Wood, Thomas J. PY - 2019 SN - 1108688330 1108750400 1108595073 1108705928 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Journalism KW - Fake news KW - Mass media and public opinion KW - Disinformation KW - Deception KW - Intelligence service KW - News, Fake KW - Hoaxes KW - Political aspects KW - Online manipulation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467610 AB - Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate. Instead, they become more accurate, even when corrections target co-partisans. Corrections of fake news yield similar results. Among Republicans, Trump's misstatements are less susceptible to corrections than identical misstatements attributed to other Republicans. While we do not observe facts affecting attitudes, multiple instances of misinformation can increase approval of the responsible politician - but corrections can reduce approval by similar amounts. While corrections do not eliminate false beliefs, they reduce the share of inaccurate beliefs among subjects in this study nearly in half. ER -