The battle to stop false news and online misinformation is not going to end any time soon, but a new finding from MIT scholars may help ease the problem. In an experiment, the researchers discovered that fact-checking labels, when attached to online news headlines, actually work better after people read false headlines, compared to when they precede the headline or accompany it. “We found that whether a false claim was corrected before people read it, while they read it, or after they read it influenced the effectiveness of the correction,”…
