What is it about?
This paper shows how users react when they confront rumor verifications on Facebook. It offers insights into intriguing questions: Do users react differently when they see rumors being verified as true vs false? Does the reaction vary between rumors that offer hope vs those that strike panic?
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Why is it important?
As an extension to previous research that has looked at how people deal with rumors, this paper sheds light on how people deal with rumor verifications.
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This page is a summary of: Rumor verifications on Facebook: Click speech of likes, comments and shares, September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/icdim.2017.8244642.
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