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Forewarning messages and annotations effectively raised study participants' awareness of potential bias in political news articles

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A screenshot from the study, showing messages and annotations created to raise awareness of potential bias in political news articles.

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Credit: Spinde et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Forewarning messages and annotations effectively raised study participants' awareness of potential bias in political news articles

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266204

Article Title: How do we raise media bias awareness effectively? Effects of visualizations to communicate bias

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: This work was supported by the German Research Foundation [DFG] (https://www.dfg.de/) under Grant 441541975, the German Research Foundation Centre (https://www.dfg.de/) of Excellence 2117 "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" (ID: 422037984). It was also supported by the Hanns-Seidel Foundation (https://www.hss.de/) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (https://www.daad.de/de/). None of the funder played any role in the study design or any publication related decisions.


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