Ramón Salaverría

Cargo

Professor of Journalism at the University of Navarra and coordinator of Iberifier (Iberian Digital Media Observatory).

University of Navarra

Topics

journalism, misinformation, social media

Outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation on social networks

social media

Outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation on social networks

SMC Spain

According to a study published in Science, social media content containing misinformation provokes more moral outrage than content containing accurate information, and this outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation. In addition, the results also showed that people are more likely to share this outrage-provoking misinformation without reading it first.