A study of the impact of emotions and the media environment on the spread of fake news

Abstract

Since fake news has become a hot topic in recent years, studies have investigated the mechanism of spreading misinformation on social networking service, SNS.
Fake news spread explosively in SNS; an environment different from that of mass media. Besides the environment, the spread of fake news is believed to be related to emotions.
Many studies have long shown that the sharing of information with others is related to the emotions and feelings of both the sharer and receiver. Based on these studies, there has been a lot of research on the sharing of emotions and the diffusion of misinformation that arouses emotions on SNS.
The purpose of this study was to examine how the diffusion of misinformation that arouses emotions differs between SNS and mass media, based on previous studies.