Online News Credibility Evaluation with Bayes Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuehang Si ◽  
Ji Wang ◽  
Xingchen Dong ◽  
Guanlin Wu ◽  
Zhengyi Zhong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Bayes Model ◽  
News Credibility

Social credibility online: The role of online comments in assessing news article credibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanka Pjesivac ◽  
Nicholas Geidner ◽  
Jaclyn Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Source Expertise ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Twitter Users

This 2 × 2 experimental study (N = 196) tested the effects of source expertise and opinion valence in readers’ comments on the credibility of an online news story about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Source expertise had a significant influence on perceptions of article credibility; articles were judged more credible when public comments embedded in the story were from expert sources (e.g., scientists) rather than nonexpert sources (e.g., Twitter users). Effects were larger on high-frequency news users, regardless of whether comments were for or against GMOs. Results suggest that Internet users mainly use the peripheral or heuristic route of information processing to evaluate online news credibility. The importance for online journalism of social heuristics via opinions of other people is discussed.

Presence of online reader comments lowers news site credibility

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Conlin ◽  
Chris Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Way

The authors raise questions about the effects of reader comments on online news credibility, and among their findings is that the same feature—readers’ comments—that makes online news more appealing also decreases the credibility of the news outlet. The commenting system and the way comments are moderated do not appear to affect a news outlet’s credibility.

Cognitive Dissonance or Credibility? A Comparison of Two Theoretical Explanations for Selective Exposure to Partisan News

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam J. Metzger ◽  
Ethan H. Hartsell ◽  
Andrew J. Flanagin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Consistent Information ◽  
Partisan News

Selective exposure research indicates that news consumers tend to seek out attitude-consistent information and avoid attitude-challenging information. This study examines online news credibility and cognitive dissonance as theoretical explanations for partisan selective exposure behavior. After viewing an attitudinally consistent, challenging, or politically balanced online news source, cognitive dissonance, credibility perceptions, and likelihood of selective exposure were measured. Results showed that people judge attitude-consistent and neutral news sources as more credible than attitude-challenging news sources, and although people experience slightly more cognitive dissonance when exposed to attitude-challenging news sources, overall dissonance levels were quite low. These results refute the cognitive dissonance explanation for selective exposure and suggest a new explanation that is based on credibility perceptions rather than psychological discomfort with attitude-challenging information.

scholarly journals MENGIDENTIFIKASI HOAX PADA HASIL PENCARIAN BERITA ONLINE DENGAN TEKNIK WEB SCRAPING DAN ALGORITMA C4.5

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
Diki Arisandi ◽  
Zul Indra ◽  
Kartini Kartini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Tree ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Web Scraping ◽  
The People ◽  
C4.5 Algorithm ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

Online news is a journalistic product reports the facts or events that are produced and distributed via internet. However, not all of the information through online media is a real facts, also described as hoax. The large number of hoax news occurs, of course, deliver the impact on the people who look on the news, so it could cause misperceptions or inappropriate actions. We exploit a web scraping technique to extract the content from search search engines results. Furthermore, we employ the C4.5 algorithm for the classification process. There were three parameters as references: invitation to spread the news, credibility of the sources, and provoking title. The results of this work were a decision tree, that able to classify a news content as a hoax or legitimate. From the experiments which carried out, the accuracy of classification using the web scraping and C4.5 algorithm achieved 80% of success rate in determining the hoax.

Media Credibility Reconsidered: Synergy Effects between On-Air and Online News

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik P. Bucy
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Online News ◽  
Network News ◽  
Congruence Effect ◽  
Synergy Effect ◽  
News Source ◽  
Synergy Effects ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
News Credibility

This experimental investigation of media credibility examined the combined, or synergistic, effects of on-air and online network news exposure, placing student and adult news consumers in broadcast news, online news, and telewebbing conditions. Results indicate that perceptions of network news credibility are affected by channel used. Perceptions of credibility were enhanced when the channel used was consistent with the news source being evaluated, suggesting a channel congruence effect. In addition, evidence is offered for the existence of a synergy effect between on-air and online news.

The faster the better? Examining the effect of live-blogging on audience reception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Online News ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
News Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
News Use

Through an online experiment, this study examines the impact of live-blogging on audiences’ perception of readability, selective scanning, news credibility, news use and paying intent (N = 220). Contrary to industry expectation, this study found that the quest for speed at the expense of errors (and subsequent corrections) has no effect on the outcome variables, except news presented in the live-blogging format decreases readability. In contrast, news interest predicts all outcome measures. Findings from this study carry theoretical and practical implications for online news production and consumption.

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