Free but fake speech: When giving primacy to the source decreases misinformation sharing on social media

Domenico, Giandomenico Di; Nunan, Daniel; Sit, Jason; Pitardi, Valentina

doi:10.1002/mar.21479

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“…These consumers, therefore, have to rely on secondary sources (e.g., news, WOM) for information. Given the prevalence of unproven, biased, or even fake information, consumers are more likely to get exaggerated or inconsistent information, making the situation seem more serve and uncertain (Borges‐Tiago et al, 2020 ; Di Domenico et al, 2021 ; Pennycook & Rand, 2019 ). As a result, individuals further from the crisis may evaluate the situation less objectively and are more likely to panic about the virus.…”

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The closer I am, the safer I feel: The “distance proximity effect” of COVID‐19 pandemic on individuals' risk assessment and irrational consumption

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2021

Psychology and Marketing

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The unprecedented crisis of COVID‐19 posed severe negative consequences for consumers, marketers, and society at large. By investigating the effect of individuals' distance from the COVID‐19 epicenter (i.e., the geographical area in which COVID‐19 pandemic is currently most severe) on consumers' risk perception and subsequent behaviors, this research provides novel empirical findings that can offer practical insights for marketers. While intuitively, people expect individuals closer to the COVID‐19 epicenter to generate a greater risk perception of the pandemic, empirical evidence from four studies provides consistent results for the opposite effect. We find that a closer (vs. farther) distance to the epicenter associates with lower (vs. higher) perceived risk of the pandemic, leading to less (vs. more) irrational consumption behaviors. We refer to this phenomenon as the “distance proximity effect,” which holds for both physical and psychological distances. We further demonstrated that this effect is mediated by consumers' perception of uncertainty and moderated by individuals' risk aversion tendency. The current research contributes to the literature of consumers' risk perception and irrational consumption by highlighting a novel factor of distance proximity. It also offers some timely insights into managing and intervening COVID‐19 related issues inside and outside an epicenter.

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Section: Conceptual Developmentmentioning

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The closer I am, the safer I feel: The “distance proximity effect” of COVID‐19 pandemic on individuals' risk assessment and irrational consumption

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2021

Psychology and Marketing

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“…Fake reviews have received growing attention from researchers (Martinez-Torres and Toral, 2019). Fake information can be detected using source information (Di Domenico et al , 2021) or message information (Banerjee et al , 2017). In this research, we focus on analyzing the message content.…”

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Detecting fake hospitality reviews through the interplay of emotional cues, cognitive cues and review valence

Wang

Fong²,

Law³

2021

IJCHM

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the dynamics of emotional cues and cognitive cues in review fakeness. Additionally, the boundary condition (i.e. review valence) for the dynamics between emotional cues and cognitive cues is investigated. Design/methodology/approach This research conducted two studies, which analyzed restaurant and hotel reviews collected from Yelp.com. The authors adopted linguistic inquiry and word count 2015 to code review contents and tested the hypotheses using logistic regression. Findings Fake reviews contain more emotional cues compared with authentic reviews. Moreover, the dynamics of emotional cues and cognitive cues are salient among negative reviews. Practical implications This research provides implications to identify fake online reviews based on linguistic cues. Originality/value This research contributes to the literature by revealing the competition of mental resources between emotional and cognitive systems when deception is for harming others. Grounded in interpersonal deception theory, this paper investigates the interactive effect and complements the literature, which mainly used emotional cues and cognitive cues individually to detect fake reviews.

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“…Unverified information sharing emphasizes people's sharing without authenticating the information (Laato et al, 2020), and the shared information could be either true or false. By contrast, misinformation sharing refers to people's sharing of incorrect information that is created without the intention of causing harm (Madraki et al, 2021), whereas fake news sharing describes individuals' sharing of false information that is intentionally created to mislead readers (Di Domenico et al, 2021). The rapidly evolving situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the information overload have made it increasingly difficult for ordinary people to differentiate between misinformation, fake news, and facts (Eysenbach, 2020;Huynh, 2020).…”

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Perceived Information Overload and Unverified Information Sharing on WeChat Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model of Anxiety and Perceived Herd

Huang

Lei

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Individuals’ unverified information sharing on social media, namely, sharing information without verification, is a major cause of the widespread misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The association between perceived information overload and unverified information sharing has been well documented in the cognitive overload approach. However, little is known about the underlying mechanism of this process. This study aims to explore the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of perceived herd between perceived information overload and unverified information sharing on WeChat. Anxiety demonstrates people’s emotional response to the pandemic, whereas perceived herd describes a willingness to share certain information if it has been shared by many. The results of an online survey in China (N = 525) showed that perceived information overload was positively associated with unverified information sharing. In addition, this relationship was partially mediated by anxiety. Moreover, perceived herd positively moderated the link between anxiety and unverified information sharing, such that the indirect effect of perceived information overload on unverified information sharing via anxiety was significant in conditions where the level of perceived herd was high, whereas the indirect effect was not significant in conditions where the level of perceived herd was low. The moderated mediation model extends the cognitive overload approach and indicates that unverified information sharing is not only an individual strategy to cope with information overload but also a herding behavior to manage anxiety. Practical implications for curbing people’s tendencies toward unverified information sharing on social media are discussed.

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Free but fake speech: When giving primacy to the source decreases misinformation sharing on social media

Cited by 41 publications

References 100 publications

The closer I am, the safer I feel: The “distance proximity effect” of COVID‐19 pandemic on individuals' risk assessment and irrational consumption

The closer I am, the safer I feel: The “distance proximity effect” of COVID‐19 pandemic on individuals' risk assessment and irrational consumption

Detecting fake hospitality reviews through the interplay of emotional cues, cognitive cues and review valence

Perceived Information Overload and Unverified Information Sharing on WeChat Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model of Anxiety and Perceived Herd

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