Abstract
Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2745-2763 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | New Media and Society |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Aug 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2017.
Keywords
- Authentication
- credibility
- fake news
- news
- social media
- truth
- verification