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Assenza, Tiziana
, Cardaci, Alberto and Huber, Stefanie
(2024)
Fake news: susceptibility, awareness and solutions.
TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1519, Toulouse, France
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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.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | October 2024 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse, France |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fake news, misinformation, personal susceptibility, experience, belief updating, willingness to pay, demand-side policy intervention, RCT experiments |
| JEL Classification: | C83 - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief D84 - Expectations; Speculations D91 - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2024 08:02 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2025 08:31 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:129250 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49023 |
