Despite the wealth of literature vested in the association between social media use and
vulnerability to fake news, it remains underexplored how and what kinds of social media …

Social media platforms have empowered the rampant dissemination of fake news and serve
as a “hotspot” for fake news. While existing research has recognized the causal motivations …

Rampant fake news on social media has drawn significant attention. Yet, much remains
unknown as to how such imbalanced evaluations of self versus others could shape social …

Fake news have pervaded the social media landscape during the COVID-19 outbreak. To
further explore what contributed to fake news susceptibility of social media users, the …

While fact-checking has received much attention as a potential tool to combat fake news,
whether and how fact-checking information lessens intentions to share fake news on social …

The proliferation of fake news on social media has become a major societal concern which
has been shown to impact elections, referenda, and effective public health messaging …

Despite abundant studies on “fake news,” the long-term consequences have been less
explored. In this context, this study examines the dynamic relationship between traditional …

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 …

This study explores the effects of confirmation bias, media literacy, and cognitive abilities on
social media users' fake news susceptibility. The objective is to disentangle the complex …

Purpose Drawing upon the third-person effect (TPE) theory, this study focuses on two types
of misinformation countering intentions (ie simple correction and correction with justification) …