Moral judgment and ethics of sharing misinformation¶
How people make moral judgments about the act of sharing or spreading false information; what factors (belief, familiarity, platform norms, consequences) influence ethical evaluations of misinformation dissemination.
Key papers¶
- Effron & Raj (2020) — Misinformation and Morality: Encountering Fake-News Headlines Makes Them Seem Less Unethical to Publish and Share — Four preregistered experiments demonstrating that repeated exposure to fake-news headlines reduces moral condemnation of spreading them, independent of belief in accuracy; fluency drives moral intuition via "familiar = acceptable" heuristic.