Cognitive and affective responses to political disinformation in Facebook

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Highlights:

• Compared to true news, political disinformation received less analytic responses.

• Responses to political disinformation were filled with anger and incivility.

• There was greater anxiety in user responses to true news than to disinformation.

• Responses to conservative and liberal disinformation were similarly less analytic.

• Incivility and anger were most prevalent in responses to liberal disinformation.

摘要

•Compared to true news, political disinformation received less analytic responses.•Responses to political disinformation were filled with anger and incivility.•There was greater anxiety in user responses to true news than to disinformation.•Responses to conservative and liberal disinformation were similarly less analytic.•Incivility and anger were most prevalent in responses to liberal disinformation.

论文关键词:Political disinformation,Polarization,Echo chamber,Text analysis,Social media,Facebook

论文评审过程:Received 1 March 2019, Revised 11 May 2019, Accepted 19 July 2019, Available online 24 July 2019, Version of Record 27 July 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.026