Abstract
This study found that while participants rated their own Facebook friend as more credible and more similar to them than a news organization, they rated news articles as more credible when they are shared on Facebook by a news organization than when they are shared by their own Facebook friend. Source, however, interacts with motivation. News articles shared by a news organization are rated more credible only when motivation is high. There were no significant differences between sources when motivation is low.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 178-190 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journalism Practice |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 7 Feb 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- credibility
- homophily
- news consumption
- online news
- social media
- source credibility