The Retransmission of Rumor and Rumor Correction Messages on Twitter

• Main Authors: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Tee, Cheng-Ying, Pang, Augustine, Lim, Ee-Peng
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Retweetability; Rumor
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87088; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44318
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article seeks to examine the relationships among source credibility, message plausibility, message type (rumor or rumor correction) and retransmission of tweets in a rumoring situation. From a total of 5,885 tweets related to the rumored death of the founding father of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, 3...