APS
2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023
Fake News: Towards an Empirical Definition
- Brooke Breaux
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Robert Michael
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Ayush Deshpande
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Abstract
College students were more likely to label a news story as "fake news" when it contained information that they disagreed with, made them unhappy, was thought to contain false information, and was thought to be written by a blogger, politician, or Facebooker whose intent was to mislead the reader.
Public Distrust
