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Citizen press official site12/5/2023 This study tries to enrich this literature on political endorsements under dictatorships by taking advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to conduct a survey experiment in Hong Kong (henceforth HK) during China’s COVID-19 outbreak. A related study shows experimentally that the Chinese government can only rebut rumors and regain people’s trust in it when the rebuttals are endorsed by the public figures widely perceived to be independent. Yet little is known if such an effect also exists in an authoritarian context. In a far more extreme scenario of civil wars, the outgroup leader endorsements for a peace settlement are found to work adversely on its public support. In a democratic context, the endorsements from less biased newspapers win candidates more support from voters, and those made by celebrities also make them look more viable in electoral competition. Allowing information flow from non-official sources can be a practical measure for governments to address the problem of a credibility deficit during a pandemic.Ĭan the trust in an authoritarian government be enhanced by endorsements from an independent source? The extant literature has documented various kinds of endorsement effects. Our findings imply that dictators can actually “borrow credibility” from their citizen journalists and even nondemocratic leaders can make themselves more trustworthy to potential dissenters through citizen journalism. This study shows that the information from a non-official source enhances the credibility of official government messages. We conducted an online survey experiment in February 2020 in Hong Kong (n = 1,016) in which respondents were randomly provided with a government press release and an endorsement either from an official or a non-official source. In this study, we aim to understand how media audiences update their trust in the government during the COVID-19 outbreak depending on the information they received. During the outbreak of an epidemic, the success in risk communications to make the public comply with disease preventive measures depends on the public’s trust in the government.
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