Trust in news on social media

Heuer, Hendrik; Breiter, Andreas

doi:10.1145/3240167.3240172

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“…Because trust is considered as a central concept for understanding important economic, social, and political behaviors. (Ben-Ner, A., Halldorsson, F., 2006) the current study investigates level of trust in political news on social media among youth driven by the finding that social media is the a main news source for a majority of people, especially young adults worldwide (Heuer & Breiter, 2018). It seeks to address challenges posed by online political news consumption and understanding of how users quantify trust in social media political news and which factors influence this trust and which variables can help predicting trust in political news on social media.…”

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Do Youth Trust in Political News on Social Media? Impacts of Trust or Distrust on the Egyptian Young Citizens Political Engagement

Saleh

2020

المجلة المصریة لبحوث الرأى العام

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This study examines to what degree youth trust political news on social media as it is an important political communication platform. The study used standard attitudinal online survey questions to assess interest in politics, sources of getting political news, trusting attitudes, and online political engagement activities. The online survey was conducted on a sample of young citizens (n= 225, age 18 to 35 years). Findings reveal the importance of social media as a political information source for young people, however, trustworthy of political information has been discovered to be low. Youth has less trust in political information sources on social media, other citizens, and political institutions. Though, young citizens have also less trust in political news in the traditional media, surprisingly it is higher than trustworthy of social media. Mistrust attitudes predict distrusting behaviors, such as disengagement of societal or political activities as a reflection of political cynicism. Results confirm also, distrust leads to less interest to interact with other net users and a decline of social and political engagement. Trust in political news on social media alters when the public are of different age education, gender, and economic status. In addition, Regression analysis shows that trust in political information on social media is correlated to six predictor variables in the model: trust in traditional media, trust in government, trust in others, political engagement, gender, and the family economic status. These results shed a light on the need of improving the quality of online political news on social media as it seems to be a vital component of the virtual public sphere. It is plausible to assume that declining political news credibility and increasing mistrust of political news online sources confirmed by this study might negatively impact the public discourse, social capital and, potentially harm democratic transition.

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Do Youth Trust in Political News on Social Media? Impacts of Trust or Distrust on the Egyptian Young Citizens Political Engagement

Saleh

2020

المجلة المصریة لبحوث الرأى العام

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“…The percentages remain high for older respondents: 25-34 year-olds (21 per cent), 35-44 year-olds (15 per cent), 45-54 year-olds (10 per cent) and 55+ year-olds (7 per cent). Heuer and Breiter (2018) found that rankings of trust in news organizations by German high-school students correspond to general rankings of trust; therefore, people who are more trusting by nature are more likely to trust news they get on social media, especially if that news is shared by someone they trust. This was especially true in Gezi Park, where people were more trusting of each other even if they knew nothing about the other person other than that they also distrusted the government.…”

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“Chapuling” for freedom and democracy in Gezi Park

Üçok-Sayrak

DeIuliis

2019

JICES

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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the role of social media during the Gezi Park protests (2013) in Turkey in facilitating and promoting the expression of what matters to the protestors in a communicative environment where most traditional media turned away from reporting the events. Furthermore, the role of social media in promoting “interspaces” (Arendt, 1955/1983) and constructing “communicative dwellings” that maintain public conversation of diverse ideas during the Gezi Park events (Arnett et al., 2014, p. 14) is highlighted. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the framework of communication ethics and conflict offered by Arnett et al. (2014) that highlights the importance of recognizing “the goods that matter to oneself and others” (p. 17) in a conflict situation. Findings Notwithstanding its potential for misinformation, social media was the only reliable option for Gezi Park protesters. During the Gezi Park protests, social media facilitated the creation of interspaces through which people could make sense of, share, and interactively negotiate meanings about the protests through dialogue. During the Gezi Park protests, social media served both as an alternative source of information and a platform for sharing what people protect and promote that allowed for the construction of multiple narratives of resistance. Social media revealed the many components of the protests collected under the label of Gezi Park. In this historical moment of narrative and virtue contention, it becomes crucial for leaders to sense what matters to oneself and others if conflict is to be constructively engaged, allowing for increased insight and productivity. Originality/value Although there are various studies on Gezi Park protests and the use of social media, there is no discussion related to communication ethics. In this paper, the authors used the communication ethics framework offered by Arnett et al. (2014) that underlines the “interplay of ethics and conflict” (p. 2) highlighting ethics as “the good that one seeks to protect and promote” (p. 7) that generate conflict because of “multiplicity of ‘goods’” (Arnett et al., 2009, p. 9) and contrasting ethical positions. Thus, given the multiplicity in terms of what is considered as that which matters, and the contrasting ethical positions that are at odds with each other, conflict and tension can be generated. There are no other studies in the literature that use the abovementioned communication ethics perspective for discussing the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

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“…In a different study, Heuer and Breiter examined factors that influence the trust of users towards news shared on social media (Heuer & Breiter, 2018). They worked with young adults, who represent one of the groups mostly threatened by misinformation.…”

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“…Some studies have been directed towards understanding of the fake news phenomenon (i.e., characterization). They analyze the properties of the fake news (Kumar & Shah, 2018;Parikh & Atrey, 2018;Shu, Sliva, Wang, Tang, & Liu, 2017), how they gain trust of the readers (Heuer & Breiter, 2018), how fake news spread and what drives their spreading (Flintham et al, 2018;Vosoughi, Roy, & Aral, 2018). The existing studies have helped greatly in conceptualizing the fake news.…”

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A study of fake news reading and annotating in social media context

Šimko¹,

Racsko²,

Tomlein³

et al. 2021

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer this by characterizing the fake news and devising automated methods for detecting them. The detection methods had so far only limited success, mostly due to the complexity of the news content and context and lack of properly annotated datasets. One possible way to boost the efficiency of automated misinformation detection methods, is to imitate the detection work of humans. It is also important to understand the news consumption behavior of online users. In this paper, we present an eye-tracking study, in which we let 44 lay participants to casually read through a social media feed containing posts with news articles, some of which were fake. In a second run, we asked the participants to decide on the truthfulness of these articles. We also describe a follow-up qualitative study with a similar scenario but this time with 7 expert fake news annotators. We present the description of both studies, characteristics of the resulting dataset (which we hereby publish) and several findings.

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Trust in news on social media

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Do Youth Trust in Political News on Social Media? Impacts of Trust or Distrust on the Egyptian Young Citizens Political Engagement

Do Youth Trust in Political News on Social Media? Impacts of Trust or Distrust on the Egyptian Young Citizens Political Engagement

“Chapuling” for freedom and democracy in Gezi Park

A study of fake news reading and annotating in social media context

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