Combating Fake News Using Implementation Intentions

IF 6.9 3区 管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS Information Systems Frontiers Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI:10.1007/s10796-024-10502-0
Inaiya Armeen, Ross Niswanger, Chuan (Annie) Tian
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The rise of misinformation on social media platforms is an extremely worrisome issue and calls for the development of interventions and strategies to combat fake news. This research investigates one potential mechanism that can help mitigate fake news: prompting users to form implementation intentions along with education. Previous research suggests that forming “if – then” plans, otherwise known as implementation intentions, is one of the best ways to facilitate behavior change. To evaluate the effectiveness of such plans, we used MTurk to conduct an experiment where we educated participants on fake news and then asked them to form implementation intentions about performing fact checking before sharing posts on social media. Participants who had received both the implementation intention intervention and the educational intervention significantly engaged more in fact checking behavior than those who did not receive any intervention as well as participants who had received only the educational intervention. This study contributes to the emerging literature on fake news by demonstrating that implementation intentions can be used in interventions to combat fake news.

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利用实施意图打击假新闻
社交媒体平台上虚假信息的增加是一个极其令人担忧的问题,需要制定干预措施和策略来打击假新闻。本研究调查了一种有助于减少假新闻的潜在机制:促使用户在接受教育的同时形成实施意图。以往的研究表明,形成 "如果-那么 "计划(又称实施意图)是促进行为改变的最佳方法之一。为了评估这种计划的有效性,我们使用 MTurk 进行了一项实验,在实验中我们对参与者进行了有关假新闻的教育,然后要求他们形成在社交媒体上分享帖子之前进行事实核查的实施意图。同时接受实施意图干预和教育干预的参与者的事实核查行为明显多于未接受任何干预的参与者以及仅接受教育干预的参与者。这项研究表明,实施意图可用于打击假新闻的干预措施,从而为有关假新闻的新兴文献做出了贡献。
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Information Systems Frontiers
Information Systems Frontiers 工程技术-计算机:理论方法
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13.30
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18.60%
发文量
127
审稿时长
9 months
期刊介绍: The interdisciplinary interfaces of Information Systems (IS) are fast emerging as defining areas of research and development in IS. These developments are largely due to the transformation of Information Technology (IT) towards networked worlds and its effects on global communications and economies. While these developments are shaping the way information is used in all forms of human enterprise, they are also setting the tone and pace of information systems of the future. The major advances in IT such as client/server systems, the Internet and the desktop/multimedia computing revolution, for example, have led to numerous important vistas of research and development with considerable practical impact and academic significance. While the industry seeks to develop high performance IS/IT solutions to a variety of contemporary information support needs, academia looks to extend the reach of IS technology into new application domains. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) aims to provide a common forum of dissemination of frontline industrial developments of substantial academic value and pioneering academic research of significant practical impact.
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