RT Monograph
SR 00
A1 Assenza, Tiziana
A1 Cardaci, Alberto
A1 Huber, Stefanie
T1 Fake news: susceptibility, awareness and solutions
YR 2024
FD 2024-10
VO 24-1519
SP 37
K1 Fake news
K1 misinformation
K1 personal susceptibility
K1 experience
K1 belief updating
K1 willingness to pay
K1 demand-side policy intervention
K1 RCT experiments
AB This paper quantifies the impact of a demand-side policy intervention on citizens’ willingness to pay for protection against misinformation. We find that individuals generally lack proficiency in identifying fake news and overestimate their ability to distinguish between accurate and false content. Providing information-through-experience about personal susceptibility to fake news leads to belief updating and greater awareness of detection ability. Crucially, this increased awareness significantly raises individuals’ willingness to pay for measures that protect against the harms of misinformation.
T2 TSE Working Paper
PB TSE Working Paper
PP Toulouse, France
AV Published
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49023/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129250