ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
False failures, real distrust: the impact of an infrastructure failure deepfake on government trust.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Deepfakes today represent a novel threat that can induce widespread distrust more effectively than traditional disinformation due to its potential for greater susceptibility. In this study, we specifically test how individuals' exposure to deepfakes related to public infrastructure failures is linked to distrust in government, with their cognitive reflection and education possibly acting as a buffer. Using experimental data from the United States and Singapore, our findings indicate that exposure to deepfakes depicting a localized infrastructure failure, i.e., the collapse of a public bridge, heightens distrust in government among American participants but not Singaporeans. Additionally, education was found to be a significant moderator such that higher education levels is associated with lower political distrust when exposed to deepfakes. The role of deepfakes in influencing distrust in the government and the broader implications of these findings are discussed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.