Title

Information overload and misinformation sharing behaviour of social media users: Testing the moderating role of cognitive ability

Summary

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

َ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

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