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​​​’Who Shared It?’: How Americans Decide What News to Trust on Social Media​

May 22, 2017, Filed Under: Media & Information Literacy

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Source: The Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The AP-NORC Center
Author: The Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The AP-NORC Center
Link: http://www.mediainsight.org/Pages/%27Who-Shared-It%27-How-Americans-Decide-What-News-to-Trust-on-Social-Media.aspx

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​When Americans encounter news on social media, how much they trust the content is determined less by who creates the news than by who shares it, according to a new experimental study from the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Whether readers trust the sharer, indeed, matters more than who produces the article — or even whether the article is produced by a real news organization or a fictional one, the study finds.

As social platforms such as Facebook or Twitter become major thoroughfares for news, the news organization that does the original reporting still matters. But the study demonstrates that who shares an article on a social media site like Facebook is an even bigger influencer of whether people trust what they see.

The experimental results show that people who see an article from a trusted sharer but written by an unknown media source have much more trust in the information than people who see the same article from a reputable media source shared by a non-trusted person.

  • : http://www.mediainsight.org/Pages/%27Who-Shared-It%27-How-Americans-Decide-What-News-to-Trust-on-Social-Media.aspx
  • : The Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The AP-NORC Center
  • : The Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American Press Institute and The AP-NORC Center

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