The Limits of Fact-Checking: Correcting Political Misinformation in Brazil’s 2018 Elections

It finds that fact-checking corrections are ineffective in reducing misinformation, even among non-partisans and when they confirm political predispositions. The study suggests that partisan-motivated reasoning is not the main driving force behind the ineffectiveness of corrections, and that correcting political misinformation in developing democracies might be more difficult than thought.