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Epistemology in the Era of Fake News: An Exploration of Information Verification Behaviors among Social Networking Site Users

Torres, Russell, Gerhart, Natalie, Negahban, Arash·2018·ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems
DOI 10.1145/3242734.3242740
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Fake news has recently garnered increased attention across the world. Digital collaboration technologies now enable individuals to share information at unprecedented rates to advance their own ideologies. Much of this sharing occurs via social networking sites (SNSs), whose members may choose to share information without consideration for its authenticity. This research advances our understanding of information verification behaviors among SNS users in the context of fake news. Grounded in literature on the epistemology of testimony and theoretical perspectives on trust, we develop a news verification behavior research model and test six hypotheses with a survey of active SNS users. The empirical results confirm the significance of all proposed hypotheses. Perceptions of news sharers' network (perceived cognitive homogeneity, social tie variety, and trust), perceptions of news authors (fake news awareness and perceived media credibility), and innate intentions to share all influence information verification behaviors among SNS members. Theoretical implications, as well as implications for SNS users and designers, are presented in the light of these findings.

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  • A variety of social ties can help increase awareness of fake content.

    “At an individual level, a variety of social ties-defined as the diversity of offline groups and contexts represented in one's online social networks (Torres et al., 2018)-can help increase awareness of fake content.”

    From Deepfakes: Deceptions, mitigations, and opportunities (2023) · cites this paper as Torres et al., 2018

  • Increasing consumer awareness of fake content, such as deepfakes, has a beneficial effect on verification behavior and network trust.

    “Additionally, the study indicates that increasing consumer awareness of fake content, such as deepfakes, has a beneficial effect on verification behavior and network trust (Torres et al., 2018).”

    From Deepfakes: Deceptions, mitigations, and opportunities (2023) · cites this paper as Torres et al., 2018

  • Addressing the surge of algorithm-generated misinformation opens up a new field of business for developing AI-based solutions and services that detect synthetic content from human-generated content and provide consumers with warnings when confronted with marketplace deception or suspicious content.

    “Addressing the surge of algorithm-generated misinformation opens up a new field of business for developing AI-based solutions and services that detect synthetic content from human-generated content and provide consumers with warnings when confronted with marketplace deception or suspicious content (Maksutov et al., 2020; Torres et al., 2018; Zotov et al., 2020).”

    From Deepfakes: Deceptions, mitigations, and opportunities (2023) · cites this paper as Torres et al., 2018

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Authors
Torres, R., Gerhart, N., & Negahban, A.
Affiliations
  • University of North Texas (US)
  • Creighton University (US)
  • California State University, Chico (US)
ORCID
Venue
ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2018-07-25
Volume
49
Issue
3
Pages
78-97
ISSN
  • 0095-0033 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-0936
DOI
10.1145/3242734.3242740
OpenAlex
W2883396905
Cited by
113
References
113
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 6
FWCI
19.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Islamic Finance and Communication
Keywords
fake news, fact-checking, social networking sites, epistemology of testimony, trust, epistemic trust, news sharing

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