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Reluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Media

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dc.contributor.authorYang, Fanen
dc.contributor.authorHorning, Michael A.en
dc.contributor.departmentCommunicationen
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-22T18:23:48Zen
dc.date.available2021-09-22T18:23:48Zen
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.description.abstractRampant fake news on social media has drawn significant attention. Yet, much remains unknown as to how such imbalanced evaluations of self versus others could shape social media users’ perceptions and their subsequent attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding social media news. An online survey (N = 335) was conducted to examine the third person effect (TPE) in fake news on social media and suggested that users perceived a greater influence of fake news on others than on themselves. However, although users evaluated fake news as socially undesirable, they were still unsupportive of government censorship as a remedy. In addition, the perceived prevalence of fake news leads audiences to reported significantly less willingness to share all news on social media either online or offline.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120955173en
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/105042en
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectfake newsen
dc.subjectthird person effecten
dc.subjectsocial mediaen
dc.titleReluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Mediaen
dc.title.serialSocial Media + Societyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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