Depth, breadth and structural virality: the influence of emotion, topic, authority and richness on misinformation spread

IF 3.4 3区管理学 0 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library Hi Tech Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI:10.1108/lht-02-2023-0073

Xiao Meng, Chengjun Dai, Yifei Zhao, Yuan Zhou

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the mechanism of the misinformation spread based on the elaboration likelihood model and the effects of four factors – emotion, topic, authority and richness – on the depth, breadth and structural virality of misinformation spread.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected 2,514 misinformation microblogs and 142,006 reposts from Weibo, used deep learning methods to identify the emotions and topics of misinformation and extracted the structural characteristics of the spreading network using the network analysis method.FindingsResults show that misinformation has a smaller spread size and breadth than true news but has a similar spread depth and structural virality. The differential influence of emotions on the structural characteristics of misinformation propagation was found: sadness can promote the breadth of misinformation spread, anger can promote depth and disgust can promote depth and structural virality. In addition, the international topic, the number of followers, images and videos can significantly and positively influence the misinformation's spread size, depth, breadth and structural virality.Originality/valueThe influencing factors of the structural characteristics of misinformation propagation are clarified, which is helpful for the detection and management of misinformation.

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深度、广度和结构病毒性：情感、话题、权威性和丰富性对错误信息传播的影响

目的基于细化似然模型，探讨错误信息传播的机制，以及情绪、话题、权威和丰富度四个因素对错误信息传播深度、广度和结构病毒性的影响。设计/方法/方法作者收集了2514条错误信息微博和142006条微博转发，使用深度学习方法识别错误信息的情绪和话题，并使用网络分析法提取传播网络的结构特征。研究结果表明，与真实新闻相比，错误信息的传播规模和广度较小，但传播深度和结构病毒性相似。情绪对错误信息传播结构特征的影响存在差异:悲伤可以促进错误信息传播的广度，愤怒可以促进错误信息传播的深度，厌恶可以促进错误信息传播的深度和结构病毒性。此外，国际话题、关注者数量、图片和视频可以显著正向影响错误信息的传播规模、深度、广度和结构病毒性。澄清了错误信息传播结构特征的影响因素，有助于错误信息的检测和管理。

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8.30

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44.10%

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