Fake news and beliefs: evidence from a natural experiment

Francesco Bogliacino*, Rafael Charris, Camilo Gómez, Felipe Montealegre

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolopeer review

Abstract

Can fake news affect individual beliefs? We exploit the natural experiment of ‘the night of collective panic' in Bogotá, combining administrative data from emergency calls, tweets, and elicited beliefs, to answer this question. The outcome variables are the perceived levels of insecurity within the neighbourhood. We fail to reject the hypothesis that the perception of insecurity was unaffected. We cannot exclude that the sample's demographic characteristics drive the null result.
Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)1-9
Numero di pagine9
RivistaEconomics Bulletin
Volume2022
Numero di pubblicazione42
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Economia, Econometria e Finanza Generali

Keywords

  • beliefs
  • fake news
  • violence

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