Barnoy, Aviv ; Bakbani-Elkayam, Shirel ; Miller, Boaz & Keren, Arnon: The role of epistemic norms in mitigating the spread of misinformation

_New Media and Society_. 2025This article highlights the role of epistemic norms in mitigating the spread of misinformation. The mixed-methods study includes exploratory reconstructions and survey experiments. Two intervention approaches proved efficient in reducing the sharing of misinformation, but only one significantly differentiated between true and false information. This study contributes to the literature on normative countermeasures and is the first to emphasize epistemic norms. Althoug