With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading
posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (eg, fake news and …

Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the
question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of …

The proliferation of false information is a growing problem in today's dynamic online
environment. This phenomenon requires automated detection of fake news to reduce its …

Der Deutsche Ethikrat untersucht, wie digitale Technologien und insbesondere Künstliche
Intelligenz (KI) auf das menschliche Selbstverständnis und Miteinander zurückwirken …

We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining
generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation …

Analytical thinking safeguards us against believing or spreading fake news. In various forms,
this common assumption has been reported, investigated, or implemented in fake news …

Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019-related fake news consistently appears on social media.
This study uses appraisal theory to analyze the impact of such rumors on individuals' …

Fake news that manipulates political elections, strikes financial systems, and even incites
riots is more viral than real news online, resulting in unstable societies and buffeted …

Emotional expressions have been widely used in online news. Existing research on the
perception of online news has primarily focused on the effect of contextual cues on readers' …

Social media has captured a large share of the public sphere at a pace far quicker than any
other means of communication did in the past, but the initial techno-optimism that marked …