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 …

With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Individuals who encounter false information on social media may actively spread it further,
by sharing or otherwise engaging with it. Much of the spread of disinformation can thus be …

This research examines (a) the negative impact of disinformation including a deepfake video
and (b) the protective effect of media literacy education. We conducted an experiment using …

Background Although fake news creation and consumption are mutually related and can be
changed to one another, our review indicates that a significant amount of research has …

Purpose “Fake news” or misinformation sharing using social media sites into public
discourse or politics has increased dramatically, over the last few years, especially in the …

We conducted a preregistered exploratory survey to assess whether patterns of individual
differences in political orientation, social dominance orientation (SDO), traditionalism …

False information about COVID-19 is being produced and disseminated on a large scale,
impeding efforts to rapidly impose quarantines. Thus, in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic …

Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades,
scholarship has offered new theories, revisited some old ones, and provided empirical …

Purpose The extensive distribution of fake news on the internet (FNI) has significantly
affected many lives. Although numerous studies have recently been conducted on this topic …