Addressing Behaviors That Lead to Sharing Fake News

Tsipursky, Gleb; Morford, Zachary H.

doi:10.5210/bsi.v27i0.8186

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“…It should be noted that this study only examined the mediating effect of perceived news credibility on the relationship between type of news and sharing intention. Prior research has looked at other variables such as individual differences (Apuke & Omar, 2020;Talwar et al, 2019), political motivations (Osmundsen et al, 2020) and behavioral intention (Tsipursky & Morford, 2018) that lead to sharing of fake news. The experimental findings presented in the current study constitute another stone in the mosaic regarding the complexity surrounding the current news environment (Schifferes et al, 2014), and provide important indications onto how people make credibility judgements on online news and how the perceived credibility subsequently affects news sharing intention.…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can We Stop the Spread of False Information on Vaccination? How Online Comments on Vaccination News Affect Readers’ Credibility Assessments and Sharing Behaviors

Petit

Liu

Millet

et al. 2021

Science Communication

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This study used a 2 (type of news: fake vs. real) × 2 (presence of negative user comments: yes vs. no) × 2 (presence of positive user comments: yes vs. no) between-subjects experimental design to examine the differences in perceived news credibility and sharing intention between fake news and real news on vaccination. Fake news was found to generate a lower level of perceived credibility than real news, which subsequently decreased news sharing intention. Furthermore, negative user comments significantly lowered perceived news credibility, and this was especially true for real news. However, this adverse effect was found to be mitigated by the presence of positive user comments. The experimental results have important theoretical and practical implications for future research on fake news about health and science.

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can We Stop the Spread of False Information on Vaccination? How Online Comments on Vaccination News Affect Readers’ Credibility Assessments and Sharing Behaviors

Petit

Liu

Millet

et al. 2021

Science Communication

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“…Some scholars such as Gleb Tsipursky and Zachary Morford (2018) proposed the establishment of a Pro-Truth Pledge (PTP) in order to address the behaviour that leads to the sharing of fake news, which is generally vital to limit the spread. At the ProTruthPledge.org users may agree to abide by the twelve practices in working with information (Tsipursky & Morford 2018). Unfortunately, people creating and spreading disinformation or misinformation are often persuaded, that they ʻshare, honour and encourage' truth and many disinformation webs label themselves as the most trustworthy and objective; this does not help to solve the issue.…”

Section: Fostering Immunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building An Information Resilient Society: An Organic Approach

Filipec

2019

CCS Journal

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Fake news, disinformation and propaganda (FDP) present an important threat to modern democratic societies and has critical an impact on the quality of public life. This article presents an organic approach to understanding of FDP. The approach builds up on the various similarities with virology where FDP is compared to a hostile virus which is spread in a certain environment and may penetrate into the human body. Based on the three pillars involving creation, spread and penetration the authors deliver in total 28 policy measures which will contribute to an information resilient society: a society which is aware of the manipulative or hostile content of information and which is encouraged by working with high quality information within the FDP hostile environment.

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“…Conceivably, similar fact checking systems could be developed for other types of public figures, or even for more low-profile professional discourse such as occurs among scientists and other technical experts. Similarly, Tsipursky and Morford [41] and Tsipursky et al [35] describe a Pro-Truth Pledge aimed at committing people to refrain from spreading misinformation and to ask other people to retract misinformation, which can serve as a reputational punishment for misinformers, as well as a reputational benefit for those who present accurate information. Initial evaluations provide at least anecdotal support for the pledge having a positive effect on the information landscape.…”

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confidence: 99%

Countering Superintelligence Misinformation

Baum¹

2018

Information

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Superintelligence is a potential type of future artificial intelligence (AI) that is significantly more intelligent than humans in all major respects. If built, superintelligence could be a transformative event, with potential consequences that are massively beneficial or catastrophic. Meanwhile, the prospect of superintelligence is the subject of major ongoing debate, which includes a significant amount of misinformation. Superintelligence misinformation is potentially dangerous, ultimately leading bad decisions by the would-be developers of superintelligence and those who influence them. This paper surveys strategies to counter superintelligence misinformation. Two types of strategies are examined: strategies to prevent the spread of superintelligence misinformation and strategies to correct it after it has spread. In general, misinformation can be difficult to correct, suggesting a high value of strategies to prevent it. This paper is the first extended study of superintelligence misinformation. It draws heavily on the study of misinformation in psychology, political science, and related fields, especially misinformation about global warming. The strategies proposed can be applied to lay public attention to superintelligence, AI education programs, and efforts to build expert consensus.

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Addressing Behaviors That Lead to Sharing Fake News

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Can We Stop the Spread of False Information on Vaccination? How Online Comments on Vaccination News Affect Readers’ Credibility Assessments and Sharing Behaviors

Can We Stop the Spread of False Information on Vaccination? How Online Comments on Vaccination News Affect Readers’ Credibility Assessments and Sharing Behaviors

Building An Information Resilient Society: An Organic Approach

Countering Superintelligence Misinformation

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