The Missing Link Between User Engagement and Misinformation's Impact on Online Behavior

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Springer Nature

外文摘要：By analyzing tweets sent before and after Twitter users' first interactions with known low- or high-credibility information sources， we have observed that people who interacted with low-credibility information tended to be more hateful even before that interaction。 Such people seemed to further increase their hatefulness only following particularly engaged interactions with low-credibility content。 By demonstrating the importance of a person's level of engagement with misinformation for understanding its impact， these results bridge the gap between studies that detected behavioral effects amongst believers of misinformation and research that instead either failed to detect such effects or concluded that misinformation largely affects small， predisposed audiences。 Our analysis also reveals a stronger link between interaction with misinformation and change in what people discuss rather than how they write posts。

外文关键词：

Social cybersecurityMisinformationFake news

作者：

Daniele Bellutta、Joshua Uyheng、Kathleen M. Carley

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作者单位：

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

会议名称：

International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

会议地点：

Pittsburgh(US)

会议母体文献：

Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

页码：

79-89

出版时间：

2022

DOI：

10.1007/978-3-031-17114-7_8