A systematic literature review of the motivations to share fake news on social media platforms and how to fight them

C Melchior, M Oliveira - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This review aims (a) to investigate the motivations to share fake news on Social Media
Platforms (SMPs) according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT);(b) to identify the …

Who believes in fake news? Identification of political (a) symmetries

JP Baptista, A Gradim - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Political fake news continues to be a threat to contemporary societies, negatively affecting
public and democratic institutions. The literature has identified political bias as one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Social media news use and COVID-19 misinformation engagement: survey study

S Ahmed, ME Rasul - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Social media is widely used as a source of news and information regarding
COVID-19. However, the abundance of misinformation on social media platforms has raised …

Individual differences in belief in fake news about election fraud after the 2020 US election

DP Calvillo, AM Rutchick, RJB Garcia - Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fake news is a serious problem because it misinforms people about important issues. The
present study examined belief in false headlines about election fraud after the 2020 US …

Comunicación y desinformación en elecciones: tendencias de investigación en España y Portugal

R Rivas-de-Roca, R Morais… - … -XXI, Revista de …, 2022 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
Las relaciones entre política y comunicación no son nuevas, pero parecen haber suscitado
recientemente un renovado interés desde el punto de vista académico. Las …

Partidismo:¿ el verdadero aliado de las fake news? Un análisis comparativo del efecto sobre la creencia y la divulgación

JP Baptista, E Correia, A Gradim… - Revista latina de …, 2021 - gredos.usal.es
[ES] Tras la recomposición del parlamento portugués con la aparición de la derecha radical,
este estudio explora la influencia de la orientación partidista en la creencia y difusión de …

Modeling the Diffusion of Fake and Real News through the Lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory

A Joy, R Pathak, A Shrestha, F Spezzano… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
These days, people have increasingly used social media as a go-to resource for any
information need and daily news diet. In the past decade, the news ecosystem and …

Exploring European citizens' resilience to misinformation: Media Legitimacy and Media Trust as predictive variables

C Rodríguez-Pérez, MJ Canel - Media and Communication, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
Building on the notion of an intangible resource, this research conceptualizes resilience as
an intangible resource that can be ascribed to countries (governments and media) and …

Elections and fact-checking in Portugal: the case of the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections

JP Baptista, P Jerónimo, V Piñeiro-Naval… - El Profesional de la …, 2022 - gredos.usal.es
[EN] Fact-checking is a relatively recent journalistic genre in Portugal that has been growing
in recent years, alternately viewed as a journalism reform movement or criticized as …

Distractions, analytical thinking and falling for fake news: A survey of psychological factors

A Kwek, L Peh, J Tan, JX Lee - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …