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Fake news on social media: the impact on society

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posted on 2022-03-25, 09:16 authored by Femi Olan, Uchitha JayawickramaUchitha Jayawickrama, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun, Jana Suklan, Shaofeng Liu
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as well as redefining facts, truths, and beliefs. To understand the degree to which FN has changed society and the meaning of FN, this study proposes a novel conceptual framework derived from the literature on FN, SM, and societal acceptance theory. The conceptual framework is developed into a meta-framework that analyzes survey data from 356 respondents. This study explored fuzzy set-theoretic comparative analysis; the outcomes of this research suggest that societies are split on differentiating TN from FN. The results also show splits in societal values. Overall, this study provides a new perspective on how FN on SM is disintegrating societies and replacing TN with FN.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Information Systems Frontiers

Publisher

Springer

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2022-01-05

Publication date

2022-01-19

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

1387-3326

eISSN

1572-9419

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Uchitha Jayawickrama. Deposit date: 24 March 2022