Curated Misinformation
Liking Facebook Pages for Fake News Sites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7571043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Haenschen (0000-0003-0191-2880, Departments of Communication Studies and Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, corresponding author), Mia X Shu (Virginia Tech), Jacob A Gilliland (Virginia Tech) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1290-1307 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642231175638 |
| OpenAlex | W4380486443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Facebook was a major conduit to fake news exposure during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. This article explores factors that predict liking pages for “fake news” websites on the Facebook platform. Leveraging paired survey and digital trace data from 806 American Facebook users, we determine that 18.4% of subjects liked at least one page for a website that published fake news. A substantial share of fake news page likes (23.9%) came from lifestyle sites that also published misinformation. Regression analyses determine that age, male sex, Trump support, and political participation are associated with liking fake news pages. A network analysis based on audience overlap finds three page clusters of fake news content—two right-leaning and one left-leaning—that also contain a majority of political and news pages. Results add nuance to our understanding of fake news by illustrating the role of non-political sources in providing potential exposure to misinformation on Facebook
Advertising · Business · Fake news · Internet privacy · Media studies · Misinformation · Page view · Political science · Politics · Presidential campaign · Presidential election · Presidential system · Social media · Sociology · Web page · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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Social distraction? Social media use and political knowledge in two U.S. Presidential elections
Null
Social media use and participation
Network Propaganda
Defining “Fake News”
News Sharing in Social Media
Media consumption across platforms
Selective Exposure for Better or Worse
Self-Reported Versus Digitally Recorded
Combining Big Data and Survey Techniques to Model Effects of Political Content Flows in Facebook
Sinclair broadcasting as mini-media empire
Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources
Belief Echoes
Stimulating or Reinforcing Political Interest
When Corrections Fail
Media Use and Political Predispositions
Get Information or Get in Formation
Curated Flows
What's Next? Six Observations for the Future of Political Misinformation Research
Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election
Mediated Misinformation
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |