How cultural exchange could prove key to making people more careful on social media

People dig deeper to fact-check social media posts when paired with someone who doesn’t share their perspective, according to new research.

People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology.

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