Editing Fact-checking (section)

==== Political preferences ====
One experimental study found that fact-checking during debates affected viewers' assessment of the candidates' debate performance and "greater willingness to vote for a candidate when the fact-check indicates that the candidate is being honest."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wintersieck|first=Amanda L.|date=5 January 2017|title=Debating the Truth|journal=American Politics Research|doi=10.1177/1532673x16686555|volume=45|issue=2|pages=304–331|s2cid=157870755}}</ref>

A study of Trump supporters during the [[2016 presidential campaign]] found that while fact-checks of false claims made by Trump reduced his supporters' belief in the false claims in question, the corrections did not alter their attitudes towards Trump.<ref>{{cite web |date=n.d. |first1=Brendan |last1=Nyhan |author-link=Brendan Nyhan |first2=Ethan |last2=Porter |first3=Jason |last3=Reifler |first4=Thomas J. |last4=Wood |title=Taking Fact-checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/trump-corrections.pdf |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212032312/https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/trump-corrections.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A 2019 study found that "summary fact-checking", where the fact-checker summarizes how many false statements a politician has made, has a greater impact on reducing support for a politician than fact-checking of individual statements made by the politician.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Agadjanian|first1=Alexander|last2=Bakhru|first2=Nikita|last3=Chi|first3=Victoria|last4=Greenberg|first4=Devyn|last5=Hollander|first5=Byrne|last6=Hurt|first6=Alexander|last7=Kind|first7=Joseph|last8=Lu|first8=Ray|last9=Ma|first9=Annie|last10=Nyhan|first10=Brendan|last11=Pham|first11=Daniel|date=1 July 2019|title=Counting the Pinocchios: The effect of summary fact-checking data on perceived accuracy and favorability of politicians|journal=Research & Politics|language=en|volume=6|issue=3|pages=2053168019870351|doi=10.1177/2053168019870351|issn=2053-1680|doi-access=free}}</ref>