The Modality-Congruent Carryover Effect: How Difficulty in Identifying (Deep)Fake News Impacts Self-Confidence in Truth Discernment and Susceptibility to Subsequent Disinformation
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Published online on February 11, 2026
Abstract
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With the proliferation of (deep)fake news, individuals will increasingly find it difficult to discern whether content is created by human journalists or artificial intelligence. A two-wave online experiment investigated the carryover effects of news ...
With the proliferation of (deep)fake news, individuals will increasingly find it difficult to discern whether content is created by human journalists or artificial intelligence. A two-wave online experiment investigated the carryover effects of news ...