{"id":88614,"date":"2019-03-12T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/study-information-literacy-can-combat-fake-news"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:42:40","slug":"study-information-literacy-can-combat-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/study-information-literacy-can-combat-fake-news","title":{"rendered":"Study: Information literacy can combat \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-information-literacy-can-combat-fake-news2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not difficult to verify whether a new piece of information is accurate; however, most people don\u2019t take that step before sharing it on social media, regardless of age, social class or gender, a new Ohio University study has found.<\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted by Ohio University professor Dr. M. Laeeq Khan found that several factors can be used to predict someone\u2019s ability to detect <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/misinformation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">misinformation<\/a>, otherwise known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fake+news\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fake news<\/a>,\u201d on social media. Additionally, the study found that, by looking at certain factors, it is also possible to predict if someone is likely to share misinformation based on the same factors.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201cRecognise misinformation and verify before sharing: a reasoned action and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/information+literacy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information literacy<\/a> perspective,\u201d was published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-literacy-combat-fake-news.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-literacy-combat-fake-news.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not difficult to verify whether a new piece of information is accurate; however, most people don\u2019t take that step before sharing it on social media, regardless of age, social class or gender, a new Ohio University study has found. A new study conducted by Ohio University professor Dr. M. Laeeq Khan found that several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}