Rumor retransmission on Twitter : message characteristics, user characteristics and retransmission outcomes

• Main Authors: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Chen, Xiaoyu
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Fake News; Rumor
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144340
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to depict online rumor retransmission using three main constructs, namely, message characteristics, user characteristics and retransmission outcomes. In particular, it teases retransmission outcomes into volume, immediacy and lifespan of rumor tweets. The dataset was drawn from 322...