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Fact-checking to debunk COVID-19 misinformation can help change people's beliefs, but only for a short while, according to US research. The authors found that exposing people to fact-checking helped decrease people's false beliefs and that the decreases were often greatest among people who were previously most misinformed or more susceptible to misinformation. However, the authors found little evidence that fact-checks have long term effects on people's beliefs, but they say that could be because the avalanche of COVID news and (mis) information simply overwhelmed the impact of the fact checking.
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