When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country - Chengli Wang, Haifeng Huang, 2020 🔗 ✍️ 📚 👨🏽‍🏫 🇨🇳 📰

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When the denied news turns out to be real, citizens will reduce their belief not only in the denial at hand but also in a similar denial in the future and reduce their satisfaction with the government. Thus, false denials have both immediate and lasting effects on government credibility and can erode citizen satisfaction with the government.