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Study ran from February 24 to March 1, 2016

The Atlantic, James Hamblin, February 11, 2015

A version of this article appears in print on March 5, 2017, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Having Built a Bubble, Sites Sell a Way Out.

"This study investigated the cognitive processing of true and false political information. Specifically, it examined the impact of source credibility on the assessment of veracity when information comes from a polarizing source (Experiment 1), and effectiveness of explanations when they come from one's own political party or an opposition party (Experiment 2). These experiments were conducted prior to the 2016 Presidential election." - from the article's abstract

report on Stanford Study executive summary of "Evaluating Information: the cornerstone of civic online reasoning"

Study where the authors "...empirically tested ... data from the tweets of German, Greek, Spanish, and British candidates running in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. We analyzed the tweets they posted and the reactions those elicited." -- from the article

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