The Use of Critical Thinking to Identify Fake News: A Systematic Literature Review
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Individuals who engaged in critical thinking while using social media were less likely to be influenced by misleading information.
“Individuals who engaged in critical thinking while using social media were less likely to be influenced by misleading information, highlighting the importance of developing critical thinking skills in the digital age (Machete and Turpin, 2020).”
From The impact of digital technology, social media, and artificial intelligence on cognitive functions: a review (2023) · cites this paper as Machete and Turpin, 2020
The Discussion of Findings says a lack of critical thinking prevented readers from distinguishing accurate from false information, and the Conclusion says that lack could be linked to difficulty identifying fake news. The review supports the importance of critical thinking, including in the context of online news, but does not report the claimed comparison between social-media users who engaged in critical thinking and those who did not. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Machete, P., & Turpin, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Turpin, Marita
- ORCID
- Turpin, Marita
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- LNCS-12067
- Issue
- Part II
- Pages
- 235-246
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
- 1611-3349
- PMC
- PMC7134234
- OpenAlex
- W3016058652
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 37.12
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Keywords
- critical thinking, fake news, misinformation detection, information literacy, online news credibility, source evaluation, media literacy education
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