To correct or not to correct? Social identity threats increase willingness to denounce fake news through presumed media influence and hostile media perceptions

Elizabeth L. Cohen; Anita Atwell Seate; Stephen M. Kromka; Andrew Sutherland; Matthew Thomas; Karissa Skerda; Andrew Nicholson

doi:10.1080/08824096.2020.1841622

To correct or not to correct? Social identity threats increase willingness to denounce fake news through presumed media influence and hostile media perceptions

Elizabeth L. Cohen, Anita Atwell Seate, Stephen M. Kromka, Andrew Sutherland, Matthew Thomas, Karissa Skerda, Andrew Nicholson

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Social network site users report being concerned about Fake news, but little is understood about what motivates them to denounce it when they knowingly encounter it. An online experiment showed that the presence of a political ingroup social identity threat in fake news content indirectly affected participants’ willingness to publicly denounce a fake news article by decreasing presumed media influence but increasing hostile media perceptions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	263-275
Number of pages	13
Journal	Communication Research Reports
Volume	37
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2020.1841622
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Presumed media influence
fake news
hostile media perceptions
social identity threat

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Communication

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