Moving forward against misinformation or stepping back? WhatsApp’s forwarded tag as an electronically relayed information cue

• Main Authors: TANDOC, Edson C., ROSENTHAL, Sonny, ONG, Zoe, YANG, Tingting, MALIK, Shelly, OU, Mengxue, ZHOU, Yichen, ZHENG, Jingwei, MOHAMED, Hamka Afiq, TAN, Jonne, LAU, Zhi Xin, LIM, Jia You
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• 主題: cue; heuristic; messaging apps; misinformation; qualitative; WhatsApp; Communication Technology and New Media; Social Media
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/210

WhatsApp, currently the leading messaging application in the world with an estimated 2 billion users, introduced the forwarded tag in July 2018. When WhatsApp users send messages that they received from someone else, a tag appears with the message to indicate it has been forwarded. By alerting recei...