Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media

Fangjing Tu, Z. Pan, Xinle Jia
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How credulous are we when engaging information on social media? Addressing this question, this article aims to understand how individuals’ epistemic vigilance, a set of cognitive mechanisms that comprise our system of precaution in social interactions, may operate and fall short. Reporting findings from two survey experiments (Study 1, N = 413; Study 2, N = 392), we show that participants tended to be skeptical toward social media news, were reasonably successful in identifying true news, and reported a tendency to share true rather than false news. In one study, social endorsement enticed a higher accuracy rating of news posts. In both studies, people judged attitudinally congruent news posts as being more accurate and reported a higher likelihood to share them. Individuals’ propensity to reflective thinking measured by cognitive reflection test potentially operated as a restraint on sharing inaccurate information and bolstered veracity anchoring in their information engagement.
事实很难获得:在社交媒体上辨别和分享事实信息
当我们在社交媒体上获取信息时,我们有多容易轻信?为了解决这个问题,本文旨在了解个人的认知警惕性(一套认知机制,包括我们在社会互动中的预防系统)是如何运作和不足的。报告两个调查实验的结果(研究1,N = 413;研究2,N = 392),我们表明参与者倾向于对社交媒体新闻持怀疑态度,在识别真实新闻方面相当成功,并报告了分享真实新闻而不是虚假新闻的倾向。在一项研究中,社会认可吸引了更高的新闻帖子准确性评级。在这两项研究中,人们认为态度一致的新闻帖子更准确,并报告了更高的分享可能性。认知反射测试测量的个体反思性思维倾向可能对不准确信息的分享起到抑制作用,并在信息参与中加强真实性锚定。
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