Research on trust in media is on the rise. However, communication scholars have
addressed related concepts (eg media credibility) for decades, and these concepts have …

There is a growing concern around the dependency of news organisations on platforms like
Facebook for audience traffic. However, scholars are still working out the extent of this …

Algorithmic curation of social media platforms is considered to create a clickbait media
environment. Although clickbait practices can be risky especially for legacy news outlets …

A large and growing body of literature shows that audience metrics exert a significant
influence in many newsrooms around the world. Scholars assume that this might affect the …

Mental health discussions on public forums influence the perceptions of people. Negative
consequences may result from hostile and “othering” portrayals of people with mental …

We introduce and study the task of clickbait spoiling: generating a short text that satisfies the
curiosity induced by a clickbait post. Clickbait links to a web page and advertises its contents …

Purpose This study aims to examine how the clickbait headlines influence the perceived
source credibility, subjective norm, perceived benefit and purchasing intention of customers …

Studies show that users do not reliably click more often on headlines classified as clickbait
by automated classifiers. Is this because the linguistic criteria (eg, use of lists or questions) …

Fact-checking labels have been widely accepted as an effective misinformation correction
method. However, there is limited theoretical understanding of fact-checking labels' impact …

This article investigates misinformation chains–fake news and clickbait–related to the 2019
oil spill along the coast of Northeast Brazil. A link between the intensive use of …