This study determined the items that could predict university students' susceptibility to
disinformation (eg, fake news). Toward this goal, randomly-selected students from the four …

This study explores the relationship between political polarization, measured as pro-
administration and opposition support, and vulnerability to online misinformation through a …

Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the
Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion …

After it became one of the most discussed issues during the 2016 US presidential election,
this study analyses how often college students are able to tell real from fake news, by …

Purpose Understanding individual susceptibility to political fake news is critical because
fake news can target specific psychological profiles of vulnerable individuals. Consequently …

This research investigated the impact of media and information literacy (MIL) on education
faculty students' acquisition of the skills needed to detect fake news. A one-group …

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 …

Having been invoked as a disturbing factor in recent elections across the globe, fake news
has become a frequent object of inquiry for scholars and practitioners in various fields of …

Fake news poses one of the greatest threats to democracy, journalism, and freedom of
expression. In recent cases, fake news' designs are to create confusion and lower trust …

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 …