"Partisan or party-shun?" : When fact-checking meets partisanship

• Main Author: Goh, Bryan Wei Ming
• Other Authors: Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Mass media::Media law, ethics and policy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153204
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This experimental study aims to establish if the source of a fact check has an impact on its believability. Using a between-subjects design, 200 respondents were each presented with two mocked-up fake news Facebook posts that were manipulated by either a government or presumed non-government fact-ch...