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Digital Resilience through Training Protocols: Identifying Fake News on Social Media

Soetekouw, L.; Angelopoulos, S.

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L. Soetekouw



Abstract

We explore whether training protocols can enhance the ability of social media users to detect fake news, by conducting an online experiment (N=417) to analyse the effect of such a training protocol, while considering the role of scepticism, age, and level of education. Our findings show a significant relationship between the training protocol and the ability of social media users to detect fake news, suggesting that the protocol can play a positive role in training social media users to recognize fake news. Moreover, we find a direct positive relationship between age and level of education on the one hand and ability to detect fake news on the other, which has implications for future research. We demonstrate the potential of training protocols in countering the effects of fake news, as a scalable solution that empowers users and addresses concerns about the time-consuming nature of fact-checking.

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Soetekouw, L., & Angelopoulos, S. (2024). Digital Resilience through Training Protocols: Identifying Fake News on Social Media. Information Systems Frontiers, 26, 459–475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-021-10240-7

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 21, 2021
Online Publication Date Jan 19, 2022
Publication Date 2024-04
Deposit Date Dec 21, 2021
Publicly Available Date Feb 8, 2022
Journal Information Systems Frontiers
Print ISSN 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN 1572-9419
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Pages 459–475
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-021-10240-7
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1219056

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