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Social Media and Trust in News: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Facebook on News Story Credibility

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Karlsen, Rune, Aalberg, Toril·2023·Digital Journalism
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.1945938
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People increasingly turn to social media to get their daily news updates. Still, we are only beginning to understand how this development affects people’s perceptions of consumed news stories. The article reports on an experiment designed to investigate the effect the distribution of a news story in social media (Facebook) has on news message credibility. A control group was exposed to a news story on an original news website, and treatment groups were exposed to the same news story shared on Facebook. Results demonstrate that distribution via Facebook affects the credibility of the news story. The effect is strongest when politicians are intermediary-senders, and to some extent depend on the party affiliation of intermediary-sender and the social media audience. In the context of fake news, the results are reassuring: people are less trustful of news they consume through social media. However, the results also suggest that social media news sharing can contribute to the long-term decrease in trust in news.

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Authors
Karlsen, R., & Aalberg, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Oslo (NO)
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Corresponding author
Karlsen, Rune
ORCID
Venue
Digital Journalism
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2021-07-21
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
144-160
ISSN
  • 2167-0811 (ISSN-L)
  • 2167-082X
DOI
10.1080/21670811.2021.1945938
OpenAlex
W3189018750
Cited by
119
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 2
FWCI
22.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Digital Journalism (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Research Council of Norway (249687)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
Keywords
social media, Facebook, news credibility, trust in news, news sharing, politicians, political affiliation, fake news, news consumption

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