#WouldYouBetOnIt - A cognitive approach to combat "fake news"

Many projects and campaigns against fake news try to tell people what is either right or wrong. This mainly leads to low acceptance rates by people. Therefore, we here claim that a proper way of working against fake news is to encourage people to think for themselves before spreading any type of news. People need to pause for a moment and ask themselves whether they believe this information to be true or not. This can be realized via nudging and boosting, concepts deeply rooted in Cognitive Psychology. We hope that this discussion paper will be adopted as an amendment for other projects and campaigns against fake news known from the literature in order to increase their value and impact.