PROMOTING ENGAGEMENT WITH SOCIAL FACT-CHECKS ONLINE: INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF SOCIAL CONNECTION AND SHARED PARTISANSHIP.

Promoting engagement with social fact-checks online: Investigating the roles of social connection and shared partisanship.

Social corrections - where users correct each other - can help rectify inaccurate beliefs.However, social corrections are often ignored.Here we ask under what conditions social corrections promote engagement from corrected users, allowing for greater insight into how users respond to debunking messages (even if such responses are negative).Prior wo

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Using Poaching Levels and Elephant Distribution to Assess the Conservation Efficacy of Private, Communal and Government Land in Northern Kenya.

Efforts to curb elephant poaching have focused on reducing demand, confiscating ivory and boosting security patrols in elephant range.Where land is under multiple uses and ownership, determining the local poaching dynamics is important for identifying successful conservation models.Using Body 2,403 verified elephant, Loxodonta africana, mortality r

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