2023
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11202796
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Social Media Fact-Checking: The Effects of News Literacy and News Trust on the Intent to Verify Health-Related Information

Ines Kožuh,
Peter Čakš

Abstract: The recent health crisis and the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence have caused misinformation on social media to flourish by becoming more sophisticated and challenging to detect. This calls upon fact-checking and questions users’ competencies and attitudes when assessing social media news. Our study provides a model of how fact-checking intent is explained by news literacy and news trust to examine how users behave in the misinformation-prone social media environment. Structural equation modeling w… Show more

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