Labelling Trump’s lies as ‘disputed’ on X makes supporters believe them more, study finds

Study says tagging posts with false claims on election fraud may make Trump voters more likely to think they're true

Labelling tweets featuring false claims about election fraud as disputed" does little to nothing to change Trump voters' pre-existing beliefs, and it may make them more likely to believe the lies, according to a new study.

The study, authored by John Blanchard, an assistant professor from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and Catherine Norris, an associate professor from Swarthmore College, looked at data from a sampling of 1,072 Americans surveyed in December of 2020. The researchers published a peer-reviewed paper on their findings this month in the Harvard Kennedy School's Misinformation Review.