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strong prior attitudes. As such, we take a closer look at the full range of
psychological mechanisms
correct
misinformation.

that may

attempts

impede

to

Finally, Tucker et al. (2018) focus on the interplay of social media and
political polarization in enabling the spread of misinformation, with
particular emphasis on the speciﬁc actors who manufacture misinformation.
However, though they present a wide-ranging and thorough analysis of the
contemporary research on the production of digital misinformation, these
authors devote substantially less attention to best practices for correction. As
a complement to this work, we discuss recent research on strategies to correct
misinformation appearing on social media platforms, including Facebook and
Twitter.

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