in the study, treatment groups got hour-long, in-depth and in-person training to help respondents recognize misinformation on WhatsApp-- a more intensive intervention relative to what's been tried. yet it did little to solve the problem on average 2/

but some effects amongst subgroups: while those who did not support the BJP (current government in India) were able to learn from the module, BJP supporters who received the treatment became *worse* at identifying misinfo 3/

I show that partisan motivated reasoning exists in India (a surprising finding!)-- at least with some partisans and during elections. but the null result means we have to think hard about what kinds of treatments can work in contexts such as these. 4/

I owe so many people for making this project possible, but in particular I want to thank @guygrossman , @m_levendusky , @mieuque and Devesh Kapur, without whom this paper would not have made it this far. full draft here: 5/5

@KhariBiskut Congratulations!

@jatingandhi thanks!

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal Ooh this is excellent! I wonder if priming individuals on misinformation as an identity based threat (with prior screening to assess identity and partisanship) could be useful for future studies.

@ashkenaz89 @apsrjournal thanks! @SimonChauchard and i have new work where we prime identities and group norms to see if they reduce misinformation

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal Congrats. Very imp paper.

@Prof_Nishith_P @apsrjournal thank you so much!

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal Congratulations! What an important paper. Unfortunate, though, that it reaffirms prior beliefs about how nothing seems to work to control the spread of disinformation.

@ayush_pan @apsrjournal I wouldn’t necessarily conclude that :) very little has been tested in the case of India so there is a lot of scope to find things that work

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal Congratulations Sumitra. You're on fire!

@dhdannychoi @apsrjournal too kind- thanks Danny! remember chatting w you about being too anxious to analyze this data haha

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal Amazing !!!! Congratulations 🎉

@_sarahkhan @apsrjournal thanks Sarah!!

@KhariBiskut @apsrjournal This is very interesting!

@devyani_pande @apsrjournal thank you

@KhariBiskut @khoslasaksham @apsrjournal Congratulations!

@camillaholmemo @khoslasaksham @apsrjournal thank you!