We use a unique, nationally representative, survey of UK social media users (n= 2,005) to
identify the main factors associated with a specific and particularly troubling form of sharing …

Social media users are key actors in the spreading of misleading or incorrect information. To
develop an integrative parsimonious summary of social media users' own accounts of …

False political information–misinformation or disinformation—is widely spread on social
media. Individual social media users play a large part in this. However, only a minority …

The increasing dissemination of online misinformation in recent years has raised the
question which individuals interact with this kind of information and what role attitudinal …

Recent studies have documented the type of content that is most likely to spread widely, or
go “viral,” on social media, yet little is known about people's perceptions of what goes viral or …

This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts
from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a …

Recently, substantial attention has been paid to the spread of highly partisan and often
factually incorrect information (ie, so-called “fake news”) on social media. In this study, we …

Research on fake news is growing, yet the relative influence of different factors on fake news
sharing and how it can be reduced are still understudied. To fill this gap, this study treats …

Individuals who encounter false information on social media may actively spread it further,
by sharing or otherwise engaging with it. Much of the spread of disinformation can thus be …

Over the past few years, concerns about the negative societal consequences of the spread
of misinformation have become widespread. While false news and propaganda are far from …