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China’s “Fake News” Problem: Exploring the Spread of Online Rumors in the Government-Controlled News Media
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The authors examines the fake news problem in China where the media environment is tightly controlled, focusing on online rumors that are not politically sensitive, and seeks to shed light on the problem of fake news.Abstract:
This study examines the “fake news” problem in China where the media environment is tightly controlled. Focusing on online rumors that are not politically sensitive, this article seeks to shed ligh...read more
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Who endorses conspiracy theories? A moderated mediation model of Chinese and international social media use, media skepticism, need for cognition, and COVID-19 conspiracy theory endorsement in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed an online survey (N = 731) from China and examined the conditional indirect effects of Chinese and international social media use on conspiracy theory endorsement (CTE) regarding COVID-19.
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Information Flow Within and Across Online Media Platforms: An Agenda-setting Analysis of Rumor Diffusion on News Websites, Weibo, and WeChat in China
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TL;DR: In China, the discussion of fake news often revolves around online rumor, and a large portion of profit-driven, sensational rumors permeate China's Intern... as discussed by the authors, which is not the case in the US.
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An empirical study of consumer video activism in China: protesting against businesses with short videos
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how Chinese consumers adopt short videos and short-video-based social media platforms (short-video based [SVB] platforms) to safeguard their rights and interests.
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Identifying features of health misinformation on social media sites: an exploratory analysis
TL;DR: A list of features was developed to help users distinguish health misinformation as well as help social media companies filter health misinformation and there are significant differences in the features of health misinformation between different topics.
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Mapping Disinformation During the Covid-19 in Indonesia: Qualitative Content Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used qualitative content analysis as a method to map the disinformation category based on the Ministry of Communication and Information report from January to March 2020, which revealed that most of the disinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic was related to the spread of hoaxes on health issues.
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Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics
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The spread of true and false news online
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
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TL;DR: The authors found that people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks, and that the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them.
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The science of fake news
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TL;DR: The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against misinformation in the internet age as discussed by the authors. But much remains unknown regarding the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, and society to manipulations by malicious actors.
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