For many people, social media is an important way to consume news on important topics like health. Unfortunately, some influential health news is misinformation because it is based on retracted scientific work. Ours is the first work to explore how people can understand this form of misinformation and how an augmented social media interface can enable them to make use of information about retraction. We report a between subjects think-aloud study with 44 participants, where the experimental group used our augmented interface. Our results indicate that this helped them consider retraction when judging the credibility of news. Our key contributions are foundational insights for tackling the problem, revealing the interplay between people's understanding of scientific retraction, their prior beliefs about a topic, and the way they use a social media interface that provides access to retraction information.
翻译:对许多人来说,社交媒体是获取健康等重要话题新闻的重要渠道。然而,一些有影响力的健康新闻实为错误信息,因为它们基于已被撤回的科学工作。我们的工作是首次探索人们如何理解此类错误信息,以及增强的社交媒体界面如何帮助他们利用撤稿信息。我们开展了一项包含44名参与者的组间有声思维研究,实验组使用我们的增强界面。结果表明,这有助于他们在判断新闻可信度时考虑撤稿因素。我们的核心贡献在于为解决该问题提供了基础性见解,揭示了人们对科学撤稿的理解、其对某一话题的先验信念,以及他们使用提供撤稿信息的社交媒体界面方式三者之间的相互作用。