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creators_name: Assenza, Tiziana
creators_name: Cardaci, Alberto
creators_name: Huber, Stefanie
creators_id: tiziana.assenza@tse-fr.eu
creators_id: albertocardaci@gmail.com
creators_id: ashuber@uni-bonn.de
creators_idrefppn: 241586526
creators_affiliation: Goethe University, Frankfurt
creators_affiliation: ECONtribute
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title: Fake news: susceptibility, awareness and solutions
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abstract: 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.
date: 2024-10
date_type: published
publisher: TSE Working Paper
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129250
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: Fake news
keywords: misinformation
keywords: personal susceptibility
keywords: experience
keywords: belief updating
keywords: willingness to pay
keywords: demand-side policy intervention
keywords: RCT experiments
language: en
has_fulltext: TRUE
subjectsJEL: JEL_C83
subjectsJEL: JEL_D83
subjectsJEL: JEL_D84
subjectsJEL: JEL_D91
view_date_year: 2024
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: TSE Working Paper
volume: 24-1519
place_of_pub: Toulouse, France
pages: 37
institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: TSE Working Paper
oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:129250
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citation:   Assenza, TizianaIdRef <https://www.idref.fr/241586526>, Cardaci, Alberto and Huber, Stefanie  (2024) Fake news: susceptibility, awareness and solutions.  TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1519, Toulouse, France     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49023/1/wp_tse_1519.pdf