Nicholas Dias

Nicholas Dias is a researcher at the Annenberg School for Communication investigating how people evaluate the credibility of information sources and the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve media literacy on social media platforms.

Sources in this wiki

• Dias, Pennycook & Rand (2020) — Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media — Five survey experiments with ~7,000 participants showing that making publisher information more visible does not improve accuracy discernment; effects depend on alignment between headline plausibility and source trustworthiness.

Topics

• source-credibility, misinformation, social-media