Disinformation, Party Identity and the Effectiveness of Fact-Checking in Taiwan: A Survey Experiment Design

The growing concern over misinformation stems from its potential to significantly disrupt democratic governance. This study examines the case of Taiwan and employs a survey experiment featuring realworld misinformation examples to evaluate the effectiveness of factchecking corrections in reducing public misperceptions. Grounded in the dual-process theory from social psychology and informed by existing international research, the study proposes and tests four theoretically driven hypotheses—all of which are supported by the empirical findings.

A Study on the Factors Affecting People’s Attitudes towards the Government’s Regulation of Fake News

Since the 2016 US presidential election, fake news has become a topic, and a consensus on the urgency of cracking down on such news has now been reached. In this age of fake news, do people consider that fake news should be regulated? This study found that 85% of people agreed with the government’s regulation of fake news. Among them, the Third-person effect obviously affected the public’s belief that fake news needs to be regulated, by which was meant that the spread of fake news would affect the judgment of “other” citizens on public affairs.

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