Biased, not lazy: assessing the effect of COVID-19 misinformation tactics on perceptions of inaccuracy and fakeness

Autor: Tsang Stephanie Jean
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Online Media and Global Communication, Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 469-496 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2749-9049
DOI: 10.1515/omgc-2022-0037
Popis: In light of the fact that people have more opportunities to encounter scientific misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this research aimed to examine how different types of misinformation impact readers’ evaluations of messages and to identify the mechanisms (motivated reasoning hypothesis vs. classical reasoning theory) underlying those evaluations of message inaccuracy and fakeness.
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