Detecting fake news during COVID-19 in Indonesia: the role of trust level.

Hilya Mudrika AriniTitis WijayantoNurul LathifahYun Prihantina MulyaniAchmad Pratama RifaiXiao LiuJianxin LiHui Yin

Published in: Journal of communication in healthcare (2023)

The respondents have hierarchy trust characteristics, indicating they trusted government information related to COVID-19 issues. The respondents also have high ability to discriminate between fake and real news, even though they tended to miss more errors than identify false alarms when detecting fake news. The findings showed that respondents who had hierarchy and egalitarian characteristics tended to perceive real news as fake news and had a better ability to distinguish fake news compared to other trust characteristics in information.

Keyphrases

health information
coronavirus disease
sars cov
emergency department
social media
adverse drug