Figure 3

Real and Fake News Accuracy Ratings Regarding Pro-Governmental Political News One Month After the Intervention (raw means). Participants of the intervention benefitted more than their peers in the control group in terms of distinguishing pro-governmental fake from real news. We found a significant difference between the two conditions in the pro-governmental fake news correctness ratings. However, there was no difference in the pro-governmental real news accuracy ratings. On the left panel, the y-axis represents real news accuracy ratings, in which higher values are desired as they indicate the correct evaluation of real news. On the right panel, the y-axis represents the correctness ratings of fake news. Higher scores represent undesired outcomes, indicating that the participants found fake news headlines accurate. The red dot indicates the median, the black line in the middle indicates the mean, the box indicates the interquartile range (between the first and the third quartiles), the curvy shape represents the distributions, and the single dots represent the data.