Did Fact Checking Matter in the 2012 Presidential Campaign?

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1558-1567

  Gottfried, Jeffrey A ^a   Hardy, Bruce W ^a   Winneg, Kenneth M ^a   Jamieson, Kathleen Hall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2012 presidential election; political fact checking; political knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885114553     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213489012     Document Type: Article

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