Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which
inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the psychological …

Fake news has led to a polarized society as evidenced by diametrically opposed
perceptions of and reactions to global events such as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

Through a nationally representative survey involving 855 social media users in Singapore,
this study proposes and tests a framework to explain why people believe in fake news …

Background Proliferation of misinformation in digital news environments can harm society in
a number of ways, but its dangers are most acute when citizens believe that false news is …

This article offers a review of scholarly research on the phenomenon of fake news. Most
studies have so far focused on three main themes: the definition and the scope of the …

An online experiment (N= 280) exposed participants in Hong Kong to an anti-police
WhatsApp news message during the extradition bill controversy. Although source …

The 2016 US presidential election brought considerable attention to the phenomenon of
“fake news”: entirely fabricated and often partisan content that is presented as factual. Here …

Fake news (ie, misinformation) on social media has sharply increased over the past years.
We conducted an experiment collecting behavioral and EEG data from 83 social media …