There has been growing interest in research on news-related user comments. Here we
conduct the first systematic review of this literature—quantitatively and qualitatively (248 …

Repeated exposure to misinformation not only reduces the accuracy of people's beliefs, but
it also decreases confidence in institutions such as the news media. Can fact-checking …

With an experimental design, this study examined the effect of source cues (Human vs. AI)
on hostile media bias through heuristic machine evaluation of machine and human social …

In the face of increasing public distrust for journalistic institutions, stories sourced from
artificially intelligent (AI) journalists have the potential to lower hostile media bias by …

The comment section accompanying news stories on social media offers an important
interactive context for news, but may also afford the possibility to spread anti-establishment …

This study considers politically motivated unfriending/unfollowing on Facebook in the lead
up to the 2020 Presidential election. As social media has grown more central to public …

News organizations increasingly use Facebook to expand their reach and foster audience
engagement. However, this free platform exposes news audiences to user comments before …

Expectancy research in journalism studies is characterized by a heterogeneous use of terms
related to expectations, reflecting the complexity and ambiguity of the expectation construct …

Social media is a powerful advertising tool in today's competitive business environment.
Though social media advertising is helping businesses reach out to consumers through …

This study conducted a controlled experiment to examine the impact of posters' IP disclosure
on the perceptions of Weibo users with different habits and information preferences and …