Exploring factors influencing Chinese user’s perceived credibility of health and safety information on Weibo

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Highlights:

• We examine factors affecting Weibo information credibility.

• Low-level claim extremity increases Weibo information credibility.

• Negative comments decrease Weibo information credibility.

• Positive comments have no significant effect on credibility.

• The effect of message popularity depends on prior trust on the information.

摘要

•We examine factors affecting Weibo information credibility.•Low-level claim extremity increases Weibo information credibility.•Negative comments decrease Weibo information credibility.•Positive comments have no significant effect on credibility.•The effect of message popularity depends on prior trust on the information.

论文关键词:Microblog,Social media,Information credibility,Involvement

论文评审过程:Available online 16 December 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.071