The reach of commercially motivated junk news on Facebook

Burger, Peter; Kanhai, Soeradj; Pleijter, A.R.J.; Verberne, Suzan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220446

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“…Useful videos did not exceed misleading ones in popularity, which suggests that the chance of a layperson being exposed to inaccurate information is quite high. Unfortunately, fake news spreads six times faster than verified news and receives higher viewer interaction [ 58 , 59 ]. Biggs et al [ 37 ] reported that misleading videos are more viewed than useful videos because the useful ones have longer running times; however, recent studies on COVID-19–related YouTube videos have returned inconsistent results.…”

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Evaluation of Korean-Language COVID-19–Related Medical Information on YouTube: Cross-Sectional Infodemiology Study

Moon¹,

Lee²

2020

J Med Internet Res

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Background In South Korea, the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases has declined rapidly and much sooner than in other countries. South Korea is one of the most digitalized countries in the world, and YouTube may have served as a rapid delivery mechanism for increasing public awareness of COVID-19. Thus, the platform may have helped the South Korean public fight the spread of the disease. Objective The aim of this study is to compare the reliability, overall quality, title–content consistency, and content coverage of Korean-language YouTube videos on COVID-19, which have been uploaded by different sources. Methods A total of 200 of the most viewed YouTube videos from January 1, 2020, to April 30, 2020, were screened, searching in Korean for the terms “Coronavirus,” “COVID,” “Corona,” “Wuhan virus,” and “Wuhan pneumonia.” Non-Korean videos and videos that were duplicated, irrelevant, or livestreamed were excluded. Source and video metrics were collected. The videos were scored based on the following criteria: modified DISCERN index, Journal of the American Medical Association Score (JAMAS) benchmark criteria, global quality score (GQS), title–content consistency index (TCCI), and medical information and content index (MICI). Results Of the 105 total videos, 37.14% (39/105) contained misleading information; independent user–generated videos showed the highest proportion of misleading information at 68.09% (32/47), while all of the government-generated videos were useful. Government agency–generated videos achieved the highest median score of DISCERN (5.0, IQR 5.0-5.0), JAMAS (4.0, IQR 4.0-4.0), GQS (4.0, IQR 3.0-4.5), and TCCI (5.0, IQR 5.0-5.0), while independent user–generated videos achieved the lowest median score of DISCERN (2.0, IQR 1.0-3.0), JAMAS (2.0, IQR 1.5-2.0), GQS (2.0, IQR 1.5-2.0), and TCCI (3.0, IQR 3.0-4.0). However, the total MICI was not significantly different among sources. “Transmission and precautionary measures” were the most commonly covered content by government agencies, news agencies, and independent users. In contrast, the most mentioned content by news agencies was “prevalence,” followed by “transmission and precautionary measures.” Conclusions Misleading videos had more likes, fewer comments, and longer running times than useful videos. Korean-language YouTube videos on COVID-19 uploaded by different sources varied significantly in terms of reliability, overall quality, and title–content consistency, but the content coverage was not significantly different. Government-generated videos had higher reliability, overall quality, and title–content consistency than independent user–generated videos.

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Korean-Language COVID-19–Related Medical Information on YouTube: Cross-Sectional Infodemiology Study

Moon¹,

Lee²

2020

J Med Internet Res

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“…While Dutch news consumers have been found to use a variety of news sources, the Netherlands also has a steady 'pulp news' diet (Burger et al, 2019;van der Poel, 2019). From 2013-2017 Dutch Facebook users consumed more low-quality, commercially driven clickbait than mainstream news, as was found through engagement scores.…”

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The politics of social media manipulation

Rogers

Niederer

2020

The Politics of Social Media Manipulation

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This chapter gives an overview of the contemporary scholarship surrounding ‘fake news’. It discusses how the term has been deployed politically as a barb against the free press when publishing inconvenient truths since the mid-nineteenth century. It also addresses how such notions have been used in reaction to novel publishing practices, including to the current social media platforms. More generally, the scholarship could be divided into waves, whereby the first related to the definitional issues and the production side, whilst the second has been concerned with its consumption, including the question of persuasion. There is additionally interest in solutions, including the critique of the idea that automation effectively addresses the problems. It concludes with research strategies for the study of the pervasiveness of problematic information across the internet.

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“…Facebook created by two college students which are named Mark Zuckerberg along with Edward Saverin, and it's began in February of 2004. Nowadays, after 17 years of existing, Facebook has become the largest user friendly social network website and global phenomenon [1], [2]. Currently, there are over 2.8 billion monthly users worldwide are active participants in the communities (Facebook, 2021) as of March, 2021.…”

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“…Several studies have been conducted on this topic [12], [17], [28], [40], [41], [41], [42]. It is reported that Facebook addiction has become a universal concern and considered as a health issue [43], although it has been a worldwide problem among university students and youth generation [2], [10], [17], [28], [40], [42], [44]. It is clear that the symptoms of Facebook addiction can be exhibited in attitudes [45], cognition [46], physical and emotional reaction [47], and interpersonal and psychological problems [7], [34], [44], [48].…”

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Facebook Addiction among Afghan University Students: A Structural Equation Modelling

Ghulami

Abdul

Ibrahim

et al. 2021

IJDCN

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The current research intends to evaluate the validity and reliability of the adopted model-BFAS, and investigate relationship between the motives and Facebook addiction in Afghanistan. The adopted instrument were online distributed to undergraduate and postgraduate students and only 431 responded across the country to determine their intentions for using Facebook. The software of RStudio used for descriptive analysis and SEM-PLS approach was applied to hypothesis the relationship between the constructs. Results showed that the BFAS measures intensity of Facebook addiction, although measurement model was reliable and structural model has discriminate validity. Further, the results show that students use Facebook for communication, social interaction and entertainment, and these motives positively predicted Facebook addiction. Based on the results, authors believe that the Facebook addiction is a phenomenon that exists across the countries, and greater use of Facebook would tend to create problem of addiction. In sum up, this research would help parents, serves provider, policy makers, current Facebook users, and students to control their excessive use of Facebook.

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The reach of commercially motivated junk news on Facebook

Cited by 23 publications

References 17 publications

Evaluation of Korean-Language COVID-19–Related Medical Information on YouTube: Cross-Sectional Infodemiology Study

Evaluation of Korean-Language COVID-19–Related Medical Information on YouTube: Cross-Sectional Infodemiology Study

The politics of social media manipulation

Facebook Addiction among Afghan University Students: A Structural Equation Modelling

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