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NEW YORK (February 4, 2019) –<\/strong>\u00a0Would people believe a news story is accurate if it is published by a source that shares their worldview? Or would they believe claims that agree with their views, regardless of where they are published?<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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Associate Prof. Mor Naaman, of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new report by Associate Professor Mor Naaman and colleagues at the\u00a0Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech<\/a>\u00a0shows that Americans are more likely to believe that a news story is accurate if the headline aligns with their political views and that it does not matter whether the headline comes from a source that aligns with the reader\u2019s views.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

For instance, a left-leaning reader who sees the headline \u201cTrump lashes out at Vanity Fair, one day after it lambastes his restaurant,\u201d is more likely than a right-leaning person to rate the headline true. For both these readers, it doesn\u2019t matter whether the headline appears on Fox News or\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, the researchers discovered.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The results provide insight and nuance to the important question of trust in news, the researchers suggest. \u201cOn the bright side,\u201d Naaman said, \u201cthe source of news might be less polarizing than previously thought. On the negative side, though, the experiment shows that people are likely to reject disagreeable information, even if they trust its source.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Naaman and his colleague Maurice Jakesch of Cornell Tech, Moran Koren of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Anna Evtushenko of Cornell University are presenting their findings at the\u00a02019 Computation + Journalism Symposium<\/a>, held February 1-2 in Miami, Florida.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

After an online experiment conducted with 400 Americans, the researchers concluded that \u201cparticipants overwhelmingly report believing headlines that align with their political views, regardless of the source of the report.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

They also found strong evidence that those participating in the experiment were not always truthful about how they evaluated the headlines. \u201cFor example, right-leaning readers would often say a left-leaning headline is false, even when they believe it is true,\u201d they note.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

When some of the participants were offered a small payment for \u201ccorrectly\u201d answering whether the headlines were true or false, they were less likely to respond in ways that aligned with their political leanings. The researchers found that right-leaning participants, in particular, rated more of the left-leaning headlines as true when they were offered the payment option.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Maurice Jakesch, the lead author on the study and a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, said: \u201cWhile we do not expect Facebook to start handing out money for people\u2019s evaluation of headlines, these results suggest the potential for incentives that may change people\u2019s behavior regarding evaluating and maybe even sharing of misinformation and fake news.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

A 2018 survey by the Gallup and Knight Foundation concluded that Americans perceive news articles as biased (62 percent of news stories) or inaccurate (44 percent of stories) depending on whether they believe the news outlet shares their political affiliation.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

But Naaman and colleagues suggest that this survey and other recent studies on the phenomenon did not dig deep enough, to find out whether individuals might be influenced by the political nature of the claims published in the news stories themselves.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

To remedy this, the researchers recruited 400 people through Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform for surveys and other tasks. The participants were shown a set of left-leaning, right-leaning and non-political headlines assigned randomly to either Fox News or\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, and asked to evaluate whether the headlines were true or false. The researchers then asked the participants a series of questions to determine their political affiliation.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The researchers say the results of their experiment are preliminary, and should be expanded in the future with more headlines, more news sources and a larger and more diverse group of participants.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute<\/a>\u00a0is a uniquely experimental, transdisciplinary graduate institute housed at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. A partnership between Cornell University and the Technion, the Jacobs Institute represents a next-generation model for STEM education, designed around industry-focused \u201chubs\u201d that address specific areas of social and economic need. As the embodiment of the Technion and Cornell\u2019s winning submission in the City of New York\u2019s competition to create a new applied sciences grad school, the Jacobs Institute is growing the City\u2019s tech sector and fostering technologies and companies that will have a global impact.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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