{"id":1164,"date":"2018-09-26T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:00:53","slug":"alan-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/alan-dennis\/","title":{"rendered":"October 12 \u2013 Alan Dennis to Present \u201cFake News on Social Media\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Fake News on Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Alan R. Dennis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Kelley School of Business, Indiana University<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Friday, October 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">10:30 AM \u2013 noon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Speakman Hall Suite 200<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fake news on social media has received much media attention and many experts believe it influenced the 2016 US Presidential election and the 2016 Brexit vote. More than 60% of Americans consume news on social media, and 84% believe they can detect fake news. But can they? We studied the ability of experienced social media users to detect fake news, and how seeing news headlines \u2013 both real and fake \u2013 influenced their cognition. Only 18% of subjects could detect fake news better than chance; 82% of users could have made better judgments by flipping a coin. We found that confirmation bias dominates, with users essentially unable to distinguish real news from fake news, and that cognition is driven by how well a news headline aligns with the user\u2019s prior political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>We conducted a series of studies examining different ways in which the social media user interface could be designed, including how news headlines are presented, and the effects of quality ratings. These different interface designs had different effects on the extent to which users believed social media stories, and how likely they were to read, like, comment on and share the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News on Social Media by Alan R. Dennis John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Friday, October 12, 2018 10:30 AM \u2013 noon Speakman Hall Suite 200 &nbsp; Abstract Fake news on social media has received much media attention and many experts believe it influenced the 2016 US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11079,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[783231,783233,783232,479],"class_list":{"0":"post-1164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-alan-dennis","8":"tag-fake-news","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-social-media","11":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}