Misinformation on Social Media: Individual Reception and the Importance of Self-Directed Internet Search for Rebuttal
In a recent article published in SCM, Sabrina H. Kessler draws on a multi-method laboratory experiment with 86 participants to examine first, differences in the reception process of accurate and misleading social media posts and how this can influence the impact of misinformation, and second, the impact of individual information search and selection processes on recipient attitudes.
The full article is availablehere.