Deliberation in health-related headlines
Just how big of a difference will deliberated thinking make in the digital age when judging whether theheadline of a digital article is true or fake? Misinformation plagued the Chinese internet space, and fakenews, especially related to health tips, often went viral on the internet with rapid speed. A previous study 1was previously conducted on political articles measuring the influence of partisanship on thinkingdeliberately. In this paper, we conducted a study on how deliberation influenced the accuracy of Chinesenetizens distinguishing real and fake news headlines, using a similar experiment procedure from theabove mentioned study. We found that deliberation reduces the possibility of these readers beingmisguided by fake health-related headlines. A similar trend of accuracy was observed when participantsthought deliberately compared to the original study, despite using different topics on a differentpopulation of participants.