Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L Xiao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Social media and belief in misinformation in Mexico: a case of maximal panic, minimal effects?

S Valenzuela, C Muñiz… - The International Journal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Contrary to popular narratives, it is not clear whether using social media for news increases
belief in political misinformation. Several of the most methodologically sound studies find …

The normalization of intolerance: The 2019 presidential election in Indonesia

RJ Toha, DD Gueorguiev, A Sinpeng - Electoral Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
The perceived social acceptability of intolerance is believed to drive individual intolerance, a
process we refer to as normalization. Social intolerance can be particularly high during …

Exploring European citizens' resilience to misinformation: Media Legitimacy and Media Trust as predictive variables

C Rodríguez-Pérez, MJ Canel - Media and Communication, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
Building on the notion of an intangible resource, this research conceptualizes resilience as
an intangible resource that can be ascribed to countries (governments and media) and …

The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news

JB Walther, Z Lew, AL Edwards… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A field experiment examined social approval in the form of Twitter “Likes” on individuals'
perceptions after retweeting a fictitious news story about a politician. The study incorporated …

Who gets exposed to political misinformation in a hybrid media environment? The case of the 2019 Indonesian election

TA Neyazi, A Yi Kai Ng, O Kuru… - Social media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In the wake of the US 2016 Presidential Election, concerns about misinformation traversing
on social media have heightened. Since then, much of the public discourse has been on …

Official yet questionable: examining misinformation in US state legislators' tweets

YC Tai, R Buma, BA Desmarais - Journal of Information Technology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study the roles of elected officials in the dissemination of misinformation on Twitter. This
is a particularly salient online population since elected officials serve as primary sources of …

Reconsidering misinformation in WhatsApp groups: Informational and social predictors of risk perceptions and corrections

O Kuru, SW Campbell, JB Bayer, L Baruh… - International Journal of …, 2023 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
In a survey study of WhatsApp users across 3 different countries (N= 3,664), we tested how
misinformation processes on messaging apps are driven by the levels of information shared …

Source-Critical Affordances in Social Media Apps

S Grut - International Journal of Communication, 2024 - ijoc.org
Research has demonstrated how erroneous information thrives in digitized media
environments, leading social media companies to introduce features for assessing media …

Towards a More Illiberal Pluralism? Reexamination of the Nahdlatul Ulama's Turn Against Islamic Fundamentalist Groups in Contemporary Indonesia

MK Amal, U Yusufa, M Faiz - Journal of Islam in Asia (E-ISSN …, 2024 - journals.iium.edu.my
Abstract The rise of Nahdlatul Ulama's intolerant response to Islamic fundamentalist groups
has revived the long-standing scholarly debate on the future of Indonesian pluralism in post …