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Brian Guay Profile picture
Brian Guay
@BrianMGuay
Assistant Professor @ Stony Brook Polisci | Past: @Duke PhD, @MIT postdoc | misinformation, polarization, social media | Last name pronounced without the u
Sep 28, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🚨New WP🚨

How should researchers determine whether misinformation interventions work?

We argue that researchers should 1) measure whether people believe or share both false *and* true content and 2) assess efficacy using a measure of discernment 🧵

psyarxiv.com/gv8qx Image Who believes and shares misinfo? Why? What can we do about it?

Answering these questions requires measuring whether ppl believe and share misinfo

But studies purporting to answer the same question often use different research designs, inhibiting progress on combating misinfo
Apr 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
🚨New WP🚨
Are Republicans really more inclined to share fake news? Or just exposed to more of it? And are they resistant to accuracy nudges?

To find out, we presented a national sample from YouGov with a large set of politically balanced headlines

psyarxiv.com/y762k

1/ The problem of fake news sharing appears to be largely concentrated among the political right. Republicans share *a lot* (up to 8X) more fake news than Democrats on FB and Twitter
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
science.org/doi/full/10.11…
h/t @andyguess @grinbergnir
Aug 24, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
🚨New Paper Alert🚨 in Public Opinion Quarterly w @Jesse_L_Lopez

Partisan Bias in Bipartisan Places? A Field Experiment Measuring Attitudes Toward the Presidential Alert in Real Time

tinyurl.com/POQ21
ungated: tinyurl.com/POQ21ungated
WaPo: tinyurl.com/POQ21wapo

🧵👇 Americans report liking bipartisanship, but attitudes toward bipartisan issues quickly become polarized when associated w/ partisan identities. Lots of work showing this in lab setting, but hard to examine experimentally in real world. How do you randomize party cues outside lab?