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Table 3 Predictors of increased number of false items believed to be true

From: Nevertheless, partisanship persisted: fake news warnings help briefly, but bias returns with time

 

Poisson regression model predicting count of false items rated as true at end

Coefficient

Standard error

p value

Warning condition

Warning-After

0.128

0.108

0.238

Warning-During

0.087

0.110

0.428

Order condition

Memory items first

0.086

0.087

0.322

Personal variables

Male gender (relative to female)

0.031

0.090

0.732

Ideology (higher is more conservative)

− 0.010

0.027

0.718

Interest in politics

− 0.034

0.044

0.434

Conspiratorial disposition**

0.108

0.035

0.002

Online news variables

Social media usage

0.015

0.043

0.717

Trust in social media

− 0.015

0.051

0.765

Trust in online news

− 0.021

0.054

0.702

True news stories rated as true***

0.074

0.022

0.001

Constant

− 0.500

0.312

0.109

  1. Items with *** were statistically significant at p < 0.001, ** are significant at p < 0.01, and others were not significant (p > 0.05). The reference categories were Warning Before for Warning condition, Bias awareness questions first for Order condition, and female for Gender (with other genders excluded due to sample size)