Stanford Seminar - Reducing Misinformation Sharing at Scale Using Digital Accuracy Prompt Ads

Stanford Online: University Courses & Lectures · Oct 21, 2026 · 1h 6m

January 26, 2024David Rand of MITInterventions to reduce misinformation sharing have been a major focus in recent years. Developing "content-neutral" interventions that do not require specific fact-checks or warnings related to individual false claims is particularly important in developing scalable solutions. Here, we provide the first evaluations of a content-neutral intervention to reduce misinformation sharing that are conducted at scale in the field. Specifically, across two large-scale on-platform randomized control trials, one on Meta's Facebook and the other on Twitter, we find that…