Intervening and reducing sharing of false cancer treatments on social media: Online experiment
Prompts (also called warnings, nudges, or labels) on cancer treatment misinformation are a promising approach to encourage intervening (flagging) and reduce sharing on social media. Social cue prompts and policies also reduced common motivations for sharing - to help and provide (false) hope - that could be interpreted as misguided altruism.
Authors
- Shelby Lake (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-5816)
- Tushar Varma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2074-9118)
- Mirian I. Avendaño-Galdamez
- Tara L. Queen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9922-2460)
- Scott Babwah Brennen
- Marjory Charlot
- Nabarun Dasgupta
- Allison J. Lazard
- Hung-Jui Tan
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341907
- Primary Topic
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00