Fake news and beliefs: evidence from a natural experiment

Francesco Bogliacino, Rafael Charris (), Camilo Gómez Cangrejo and Felipe Montealegre ()
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Rafael Charris: Chapman University
Felipe Montealegre: Università degli Studi di Bologna

Economics Bulletin, 2022, vol. 42, issue 2, 802 - 809

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.

Keywords: fake news; perception of insecurity; beliefs; availability heuristics, motivated reasoning, social identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06-30
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