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Government trust was measured using the Citizen Trust 
in Government Organizations’ scale (Grimmelikhuijsen and 
Knies 2017). Respondents were presented with nine state-
ments and asked the extent to which they agree or disagree 
with each statement using a 5-point Likert-type scale. Sam-
ple items include “the federal government is capable” and 
“the federal government is honest.” The overall Cronbach’s 
alpha for this scale was 0.959.
Use of bot and content flags to limit the spread of misinformation among social networks: a behavior and attitude survey