The Society of Socio-Informatics Annual Conference Proceedings
Online ISSN : 2759-6192
Vol.2022
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Relationship between misinformation spreading behaviour and true/false judgments and literacy
an empirical analysis of COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation in Japan
*Shinichi YAMAGUCHITsukasa TANIHARA
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Pages 145-148

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In this study, we tested the following two hypotheses: (1) people who believe that some misinformation is true are more likely to spread it than those who do not believe in its truthfulness; (2) people with lower media and information literacy are more likely to spread misinformation than people with higher media and information literacy. The results of a logit model analysis of survey data using actual fact-checked COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation supported the two hypotheses. The trend was also generally robust regardless of the method, whether the means of diffusion was social media or direct conversation.

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