Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability

Through a nationally representative survey involving 855 social media users in Singapore, this study proposes and tests a framework to explain why people believe in fake news. Guided by work on dual process models that theorize that individuals engage in either thorough or automatic processing, this...

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Main Authors: Tandoc, Edson C., Lee, James, Chew, Matthew, Tan, Fan Xi, Goh, Zhang Hao
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159819