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

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...

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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
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1598192022-07-04T03:23:15Z Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability Tandoc, Edson C. Lee, James Chew, Matthew Tan, Fan Xi Goh, Zhang Hao Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social sciences::Communication 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 study finds that both cognitive ability and political bias predict the extent to which individuals fall for fake news. While both exert direct effects on the extent to which individuals believe in fake news, they also exert indirect effects through how they lead individuals to different news consumption patterns. Ministry of Education (MOE) This work was supported by Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 1 Grant: [Grant Number RG 150/18]; Singapore Social Science Research Council: [Grant Number MOE2018-SSRTG-022]. 2022-07-04T03:23:15Z 2022-07-04T03:23:15Z 2021 Journal Article Tandoc, E. C., Lee, J., Chew, M., Tan, F. X. & Goh, Z. H. (2021). Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability. Asian Journal of Communication, 31(4), 237-253. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2021.1941149 0129-2986 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159819 10.1080/01292986.2021.1941149 2-s2.0-85108208994 4 31 237 253 en RG 150/18 MOE2018-SSRTG-022 Asian Journal of Communication © 2021 AMIC/WKWSCI-NTU. All rights reserved.
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Tandoc, Edson C.
Lee, James
Chew, Matthew
Tan, Fan Xi
Goh, Zhang Hao
Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
description 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 study finds that both cognitive ability and political bias predict the extent to which individuals fall for fake news. While both exert direct effects on the extent to which individuals believe in fake news, they also exert indirect effects through how they lead individuals to different news consumption patterns.
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Tandoc, Edson C.
Lee, James
Chew, Matthew
Tan, Fan Xi
Goh, Zhang Hao
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author Tandoc, Edson C.
Lee, James
Chew, Matthew
Tan, Fan Xi
Goh, Zhang Hao
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title Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
title_short Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
title_full Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
title_fullStr Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
title_full_unstemmed Falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
title_sort falling for fake news: the role of political bias and cognitive ability
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