Fig. 3: Excerpts from the experimental stimuli for rebutting science denialism in hostile social media discussions about vaccination.
From: Hostility has a trivial effect on persuasiveness of rebutting science denialism on social media
Neutral misinformation and neutral rebuttal are adapted from previous research9,42. The adapted hostile versions include swear words, direct insults and words in capital letters. The displayed texts represent the four key combinations of misinformation (either neutral or hostile) and rebuttal (either neutral or hostile) as used in Experiments 1–3. The content was adapted to GM foods in Experiment 4. Full dialogues for all experiments are provided online63.
