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Melis Kartal - Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice

28/09/2023

Our theory and experiments suggest that overconfidence impairs information aggregation when a sufficiently high fraction of news is false

Surveys show that people overestimate their ability in discerning fake news from real reporting. This is an example of the infamous Dunning–Kruger effect – and it’s one of the main reasons why misinformation spreads so easily.

Read more: Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice - American Economic Association (aeaweb.org)

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