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The Study of Audience’s Response to the Fake News About Covid-19 That Posted by KOL on Twitter

Authors
Zewei Jin1, *, †, Nuo Mei2, *, †, Yixuan Wang3, *, †, Yunlong Zhang4, *, †
1University of Toronto St. George Campus, Toronto, M5S 2E8, Canada
2University of Toronto Mississauga Campus, Mississauga, L5L 1C6, Canada
3University of Toronto St. George Campus, Toronto, M5S 2E8, Canada
4Communication University of China, No.7, Dingfuzhuang South Li, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China
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Those authors contributed equally.

*Corresponding author. Email: nuo.mei@mail.utoronto.ca
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Zewei Jin, Nuo Mei, Yixuan Wang, Yunlong Zhang
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.386How to use a DOI?
Keywords
social media; Twitter; fake news; covid-19
Abstract

In the current era of social media culture, almost everyone’s social life is inseparable from media. Especially since the outbreak of COVID-19, the way most people communicate has shifted to online, and the release of information on social media has seen an explosion. However, the information spread on social media platforms is not all positive, and there is many fake news mixed in and continuously spread. Different types of publishers have different effects on their audiences, and their audiences react differently. This paper uses thematic analysis and selects the content of a fake news tweet published by a journalist, and studies the content of its popular comments to summarize the audience’s response. The results turned out that the responses of its audience fall into three broad themes: unequivocal belief, decisive denial, and skepticism.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.386How to use a DOI?
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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