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Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as well as r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35068999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10242-z |
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author | Olan, Femi Jayawickrama, Uchitha Arakpogun, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Suklan, Jana Liu, Shaofeng |
author_facet | Olan, Femi Jayawickrama, Uchitha Arakpogun, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Suklan, Jana Liu, Shaofeng |
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description | Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as well as redefining facts, truths, and beliefs. To understand the degree to which FN has changed society and the meaning of FN, this study proposes a novel conceptual framework derived from the literature on FN, SM, and societal acceptance theory. The conceptual framework is developed into a meta-framework that analyzes survey data from 356 respondents. This study explored fuzzy set-theoretic comparative analysis; the outcomes of this research suggest that societies are split on differentiating TN from FN. The results also show splits in societal values. Overall, this study provides a new perspective on how FN on SM is disintegrating societies and replacing TN with FN. |
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spelling | pubmed-87670402022-01-19 Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society Olan, Femi Jayawickrama, Uchitha Arakpogun, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Suklan, Jana Liu, Shaofeng Inf Syst Front Article Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as well as redefining facts, truths, and beliefs. To understand the degree to which FN has changed society and the meaning of FN, this study proposes a novel conceptual framework derived from the literature on FN, SM, and societal acceptance theory. The conceptual framework is developed into a meta-framework that analyzes survey data from 356 respondents. This study explored fuzzy set-theoretic comparative analysis; the outcomes of this research suggest that societies are split on differentiating TN from FN. The results also show splits in societal values. Overall, this study provides a new perspective on how FN on SM is disintegrating societies and replacing TN with FN. Springer US 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8767040/ /pubmed/35068999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10242-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Olan, Femi Jayawickrama, Uchitha Arakpogun, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Suklan, Jana Liu, Shaofeng Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title | Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title_full | Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title_fullStr | Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title_full_unstemmed | Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title_short | Fake news on Social Media: the Impact on Society |
title_sort | fake news on social media: the impact on society |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767040/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35068999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10242-z |
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