To Believe or Not to Believe: The Impact of Dual-Route Factors on Individuals’ Perception of False News on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhui Sophy Cheng ◽  
Shao-Liang Chang ◽  
Chi-Ying Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
False News ◽  
The Impact

Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Pereira ◽  
Jay Joseph Van Bavel ◽  
Elizabeth Ann Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
System P ◽  
False News ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
The Impact

Political misinformation, often called “fake news”, represents a threat to our democracies because it impedes citizens from being appropriately informed. Evidence suggests that fake news spreads more rapidly than real news—especially when it contains political content. The present article tests three competing theoretical accounts that have been proposed to explain the rise and spread of political (fake) news: (1) the ideology hypothesis— people prefer news that bolsters their values and worldviews; (2) the confirmation bias hypothesis—people prefer news that fits their pre-existing stereotypical knowledge; and (3) the political identity hypothesis—people prefer news that allows their political in-group to fulfill certain social goals. We conducted three experiments in which American participants read news that concerned behaviors perpetrated by their political in-group or out-group and measured the extent to which they believed the news (Exp. 1, Exp. 2, Exp. 3), and were willing to share the news on social media (Exp. 2 and 3). Results revealed that Democrats and Republicans were both more likely to believe news about the value-upholding behavior of their in-group or the value-undermining behavior of their out-group, supporting a political identity hypothesis. However, although belief was positively correlated with willingness to share on social media in all conditions, we also found that Republicans were more likely to believe and want to share apolitical fake new. We discuss the implications for theoretical explanations of political beliefs and application of these concepts in in polarized political system.

scholarly journals DAMPAK MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP PERPUSTAKAAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Endang Fatmawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Rapid Flow ◽  
False News ◽  
Release Of Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Way

<p>Online media has penetrated in all areas including the library so the impact on the rapid flow of information. Library into the gates of knowledge so librarian most responsible for the release of information entered into the goal. Information posts from library can be made through any type of social media application. Sosial media was created to enable people to communicate and connect with others. Social media has changes the way librarian in doing their jobs related to communicate with the users, how to communicate both individually and at the library level. Social media have forever changed the way interact, share, and ultimately conduct our relationships. Various information appeared like seawater unstoppable spread so users required to be wise in choosing and using them. A wave of false news more so by the presence of social media. Social media become a challenge for librarians to improve their competence with media literacy of new technology. Librarian library through a very important role as a gateway healthy information.</p><p>Media online sudah merambah di semua bidang termasuk perpustakaan sehingga berdampak pada pesatnya arus informasi. Perpustakaan menjadi gerbang pengetahuan sehingga pustakawanlah yang paling bertanggung jawab menjadi gawang masuk keluarnya informasi. Informasi dari perpustakaan dapat dilakukan melalui semua jenis aplikasi media sosial. Media sosial memungkinkan kita berkomunikasi dan terhubung dengan yang lain. Media sosial<strong> </strong>dapat mengubah pekerjaan pustakawan yang berhubungan dengan komunikasi dengan pemustaka, baik perseorangan maupun pada level perpustakaan.<strong> </strong>Media sosial merubah cara untuk berinteraksi, berbagi, dan menjalin hubungan. Beragam informasi muncul bagaikan air laut yang tak terbendung penyebarannya sehingga pemustaka dituntut harus bijak dalam memilih dan menggunakannya. Gelombang berita bohong semakin terasa dengan hadirnya media sosial. Media sosial menjadi tantangan bagi para pustakawan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi literasi media dengan teknologi baru. Perpustakaan melalui pustakawannya sangat berperan sebagai gerbang informasi sehat.</p>

scholarly journals Doubters are more convincing than advocates. The impact of user comments and ratings on credibility perceptions of false news stories on social media

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-470
Author(s):  
Jan P . Kluck ◽  
Leonie Schaewitz ◽  
Nicole C . Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
News Stories ◽  
User Comments ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Credibility Rating ◽  
Heuristic Information Processing ◽  
False News ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sharing Behavior

False information on social media poses a crucial threat to our society, and calls for interventions to combat this problem are becoming louder. Users themselves may have the potential to diminish the impact of misleading information. In an online experiment with a 3 x 3 between-subjects design (credibility evaluation in user comments: positive vs. negative vs. none) x (numerical credibility rating: positive vs. negative vs. none), we tested the influence of bandwagon cues on the impact of a false news post on Facebook (N = 240). Contrary to prevalent assumptions regarding heuristic information processing, numerical credibility ratings had no influence on participants’ credibility appraisals and intended sharing behavior. However, negative user comments diminished the believability of false news. Moreover, participants’ willingness to share the news post publicly and privately was indirectly reduced by the effect of negative user comments on perceived news credibility.

Detecting Fake News on Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Esra Bozkanat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Type ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
False News ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Interactive Medium

As Web 2.0 technologies have turned the Internet into an interactive medium, users dominate the field. With the spread of social media, the Internet has become much more user-oriented. In contrast to traditional media, social media's lack of control mechanisms makes the accuracy of spreading news questionable. This brings us to the significance of fact-checking platforms. This study investigates the antecedents of spreading false news in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of fake news. For this purpose, teyit.org, the biggest fact-checking platform in Turkey, has been chosen for analysis. The current study shows fake news to be detectable based on four features: Propagation, User Type, Social Media Type, and Formatting. According to the logistic regression analysis, the study's model obtained 86.7% accuracy. The study demonstrates that Facebook increases the likelihood of news being fake compared to Twitter or Instagram. Emoji usage is also statistically significant in terms of increasing the probability of fake news. Unexpectedly, the impact of photos or videos was found statistically insignificant.

scholarly journals PENYULUHAN PENGARUH MEDIA SOSIAL DI KALANGAN PELAJAR SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS CENDERAWASIH 1 JAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Fransiska Novita Eleanora ◽  
Andang Sari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
False News ◽  
The Impact

Community service activities carried out in the Cenderawasih 1 high school in Jakarta in the form of counseling about social media which is increasingly widespread in use especially for its use and its influence among students both positive and negative. This service aims to provide an understanding of the impact and also the consequences of the use of social media, so that in using it is done carefully, carefully and carefully and wisely so as to avoid negative actions such as violating decency, gambling, insults and or defamation , extortion and or threatening, as well as spreading false news and deemed misleading resulting in consumer losses and spreading hatred or individual hostility and or certain groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, race, and intergroup (SARA)

scholarly journals UJARAN KEBENCIAN (HATE SPEECH) DI MASYARAKAT DALAM KAJIAN TEOLOGI

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulkarnain Zulkarnain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Control Factors ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
False News ◽  
The Impact

<p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The development of sophisticated social media can post content in the form of text, video, sound and images freely which can be disseminated anywhere and anytime with the help of the internet network. Not infrequently social media users abuse social media as a means to vent their emotions, spread false news, bring down others, and even spread hatred to other people or groups. Not a few people who feel disadvantaged as a result of this hate speech. The author's purpose in raising this phenomenon is to find out how hate speech (hate speech) is in society according to theological studies. Methodologically, this study uses a qualitative research type with a library research approach. The factors that cause the perpetrators to do hate speech (hate speech), namely, factors from within the individual (internal) including the psychological and psychological condition of the individual and factors from outside the individual, namely environmental factors, factors of lack of social control, factors of community interest, factors of ignorance community, as well as facilities, facilities and technological and psychological or psychological progress of the actors, namely high emotional power, besides the factors of facilities, facilities and technological progress are also very influential because of the availability of facilities and facilities that are easily available and increasingly sophisticated technological advancements making it easier for each social media users access all information without limits. Efforts to overcome the occurrence of hate speech (hate speech) crime in social media that consists of penal and non-penal efforts. Where penalties consist of imposing sanctions on perpetrators by imprisonment in accordance with what has been stipulated in the ITE Law to provide a deterrent effect. While the non-penal effort is to provide counseling or outreach to the general public regarding information on the impact of electronic media if not used wisely, the ethics of using social media by providing legal knowledge about the ITE Law.</em></p><p>           </p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>Speech, Hate, Society, Theology</em></p>

Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022110300
Author(s):  
Andrea Pereira ◽  
Elizabeth Harris ◽  
Jay J. Van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
False News ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
The Impact

We test three competing theoretical accounts invoked to explain the rise and spread of political (mis)information. We compare the ideological values hypothesis (people prefer news that bolster their values and worldviews); the confirmation bias hypothesis (people prefer news that fit their preexisting stereotypical knowledge); and the political identity hypothesis (people prefer news that allow them to believe positive things about political ingroup members and negative things about political outgroup members). In three experiments ( N = 1,420), participants from the United States read news describing actions perpetrated by their political ingroup or outgroup. Consistent with the political identity hypothesis, Democrats and Republicans were both more likely to believe news about the value-upholding behavior of their ingroup or the value-undermining behavior of their outgroup. Belief was positively correlated with willingness to share on social media in all conditions, but Republicans were more likely to believe and want to share apolitical fake news.

The Impact of Social Media on Work

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Landers ◽  
Gordon B. Schmidt ◽  
Jeffrey M. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Impact

#INCLUSION – THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION ON THE LEGITIMACY OF ARMED FORCES

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
EVA MOEHLECKE DE BASEGGIO ◽  
OLIVIA SCHNEIDER ◽  
TIBOR SZVIRCSEV TRESCH
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Social Media Communication ◽  
The Impact

The Swiss Armed Forces (SAF), as part of a democratic system, depends on legitimacy. Democracy, legitimacy and the public are closely connected. In the public sphere the SAF need to be visible; it is where they are controlled and legitimated by the citizens, as part of a deliberative discussion in which political decisions are communicatively negotiated. Considering this, the meaning of political communication, including the SAF’s communication, becomes obvious as it forms the most important basis for political legitimation processes. Social media provide a new way for the SAF to communicate and interact directly with the population. The SAF’s social media communication potentially brings it closer to the people and engages them in a dialogue. The SAF can become more transparent and social media communication may increase its reputation and legitimacy. To measure the effects of social media communication, a survey of the Swiss internet population was conducted. Based on this data, a structural equation model was defined, the effects of which substantiate the assumption that the SAF benefits from being on social media in terms of broadening its reach and increasing legitimacy values.

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