the paper discusses the effect of cognative ability as well as information fatigues on the spread of misinfomration. it shows that people with higher cognative ability are less likely to share misinformation than those with lower cognative ability. but even those with high cognative ability are affected by info fatigue
Title
Information overload and misinformation sharing behaviour of social media users: Testing the moderating role of cognitive ability
Summary
َAuthor
Apuke, Oberiri Destiny ; Omar, Bahiyah ; Tunca, Elif Asude ; Gever, Celestine Verlumun
Year
2022
َThematic Area
Psychology
Topic
Social Media and Elif Asude
Country
Armenia
Region
Africa
Misinformation Combatting
Cross Cutting
Place Published
LONDON
Publisher
Sage
Journal
Journal of Information Science
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221121942
URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221121942
APA 7th End Text Citation
Apuke, O. D., Omar, B., Tunca, E. A., & Gever, C. V. (2022). Information overload and misinformation sharing behaviour of social media users: Testing the moderating role of cognitive ability. Journal of Information Science, 16555152211219–. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221121942