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 …
S Muhammed T, SK Mathew - International journal of data science and …, 2022 - Springer
The spread of misinformation in social media has become a severe threat to public interests. For example, several incidents of public health concerns arose out of social media …
Social media plays a significant role during pandemics such as COVID-19, as it enables people to share news as well as personal experiences and viewpoints with one another in …
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …
ABSTRACT The World Health Organisation has emphasised that misinformation–spreading rapidly through social media–poses a serious threat to the COVID-19 response. Drawing …
SL Pan, S Zhang - International journal of information management, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a significant threat to the healthy lives and well-being of billions of people worldwide. As the world begins to open up from …
Social media has become a popular means for people to consume and share the news. At the same time, however, it has also enabled the wide dissemination of fake news, that is …
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and …
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 …