There is growing concern amongst policy makers, managers and academic researchers
over the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation, widely described as 'Fake …

Sharing of fake news on social media platforms is a global concern, with research offering
little insight into the motives behind such sharing. This study adopts a mixed-method …

With the arrival of the Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs),
today's society has driven many changes in which the digital channel is one of the main …

Fake news is a topic that has been discussed for quite some time. Prior to the internet era, it
was mostly distributed through yellow journalism, with a focus on sensational news such as …

Fake news, hostility, defamation are some of the biggest problems faced in social media. We
present the findings of the shared tasks (https://constraint-shared-task-2021. github. io/) …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Social media is increasingly being used worldwide to produce and exchange information.
However, the absence of adequate control mechanisms on this medium has led to concerns …

Purpose Drawing on the third-person effect (TPE) theory and the theory of planned behavior
(TPB) as a theoretical framework, the current study aims to explore the cognitive …

The presumed influence of digital misinformation: examining US public’s support for
governmental restrictions versus corrective action in the COVID-19 pandemic | Emerald Insight …

This study conducted a mixed-design experiment to explore how the audience evaluates
brands targeted in online disinformation. The effects of key characteristics of fake news …