Researcher Kelly Garrett and doctoral student Shannon Poulsen's two recent studies found that inaccurate Facebook posts were more likely to be perceived as false when they were labeled as humorous, rather than when they were marked as flagged by fact checkers.

Their study, Flagging Facebook Falsehoods: Self-Identified Humor Warnings Outperform Fact Checker and Peer Warnings, was published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

For more information on their research, read Ohio State News.