Effect of Fake News Awareness as an Intervention Strategy for Motivating News Verification Behaviour Among Social Media Users in Nigeria: A Quasi-Experimental Research-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Effect of Fake News Awareness as an Intervention Strategy for Motivating News Verification Behaviour Among Social Media Users in Nigeria: A Quasi-Experimental Research

Published:2022-02-21 Issue: Volume: Page:002190962210793
ISSN:0021-9096
Container-title:Journal of Asian and African Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Asian and African Studies

Author:

Apuke Oberiri Destiny¹^ORCID,Omar Bahiyah²^ORCID,Tunca Elif Asude³

Affiliation:

1. School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia; Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Taraba State University, Nigeria

2. School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

3. Department of New Media and Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, European University of Lefke, Turkey

Abstract

This study tests the effect of fake news awareness as an intervention strategy for motivating news verification behaviour among social media users in Nigeria. A quasi-experiment was utilized with 470 participants divided into two groups, comprising the control group, n = 235, and the treatment group, n = 235. Fake news awareness was found to be an effective intervention strategy used to intensify the urgency and need to verify news before sharing. Individuals exposed to fake news awareness campaigns reported a more positive attitude towards news verification, better self-efficacy towards verification and were more concerned about their reputation on social media.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Development,Geography, Planning and Development

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00219096221079320

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