Tell Me Who Your Sources Are
- 2 January 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Practice
- Vol. 13 (2), 178-190
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1423237
Abstract
This study found that while participants rated their own Facebook friend as more credible and more similar to them than a news organization, they rated news articles as more credible when they are shared on Facebook by a news organization than when they are shared by their own Facebook friend. Source, however, interacts with motivation. News articles shared by a news organization are rated more credible only when motivation is high. There were no significant differences between sources when motivation is low.Keywords
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