Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability

• Main Authors: Tandoc, Edson C., Lee, James, Chew, Matthew, Tan, Fan Xi, Goh, Zhang Hao
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159819
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Through a nationally representative survey involving 855 social media users in Singapore, this study proposes and tests a framework to explain why people believe in fake news. Guided by work on dual process models that theorize that individuals engage in either thorough or automatic processing, this...