Add to ORKGInternational audienceCitizens and Emergency Managers need to be able to distinguish "fake" (untrue) news posts from real news posts on social media during disasters. This paper is based on an online survey conducted in 2018 that produced 341 responses from invitations distributed via email and through Facebook. It explores to what extent and how citizens generally assess whether postings are "true" or "fake," and describes indicators of the trustworthiness of content that users would like. The mean response on a semantic differential scale measuring how frequently users attempt to verify the news trustworthiness (a scale from 1-never to 5-always) was 3.37. The most frequent message characteristics citizens' use are grammar and the trustwor...
Fake news is becoming a very prominent issue in today\u27s internet based society. These sites gener...
A catalyst for the spread of fake news is the existence of comments that users make in support of, o...
Despite the increasing relevance of how to counter fake news on social media, there are only a few s...
International audienceCitizens and Emergency Managers need to be able to distinguish "fake" (untrue)...
The purpose of this research was to understand differences in UK users’ perceived credibility of rea...
The use of social media is gaining more and more in importance in ordinary life but also in conflict...
In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, ...
In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, ...
The rise of “fake news” has become a major concern for social media platforms. In response, Facebook...
With increased reliance on social media to spread important information during extreme events, users...
Fake news in the form of disinformation on social networks has become a real concern, with serious p...
Over the last decade the Internet has seen rapid growth in our society. By 2011, 75.6% of families r...
In the age of the digital revolution and the widespread usage of social networks, the modalities of ...
A lack of trust in the information exchanged via social media may significantly hinder decisionmakin...
While Twitter provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about breaking news and current events ...
Fake news is becoming a very prominent issue in today\u27s internet based society. These sites gener...
A catalyst for the spread of fake news is the existence of comments that users make in support of, o...
Despite the increasing relevance of how to counter fake news on social media, there are only a few s...
International audienceCitizens and Emergency Managers need to be able to distinguish "fake" (untrue)...
The purpose of this research was to understand differences in UK users’ perceived credibility of rea...
The use of social media is gaining more and more in importance in ordinary life but also in conflict...
In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, ...
In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, ...
The rise of “fake news” has become a major concern for social media platforms. In response, Facebook...
With increased reliance on social media to spread important information during extreme events, users...
Fake news in the form of disinformation on social networks has become a real concern, with serious p...
Over the last decade the Internet has seen rapid growth in our society. By 2011, 75.6% of families r...
In the age of the digital revolution and the widespread usage of social networks, the modalities of ...
A lack of trust in the information exchanged via social media may significantly hinder decisionmakin...
While Twitter provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about breaking news and current events ...
Fake news is becoming a very prominent issue in today\u27s internet based society. These sites gener...
A catalyst for the spread of fake news is the existence of comments that users make in support of, o...
Despite the increasing relevance of how to counter fake news on social media, there are only a few s...