Hypothesis:

User-sourced ratings of articles and sources on a social media platform will be viewed as more trustworthy than external sources or AI-assisted ratings.

Proposal Outline:

Introduction

Impact of fake news on news credibility

• Tandoc et al, 2021

Digital populism and disinformation

• Prior, 2021

Hypothesis

Literature Review

Information Literacy

• Khan et al, 2019

User ratings of content posters

• Chen et al, 2011

Detecting and Resolving Social Media Rumors

• Zubiaga et al, 2018

Source Ratings to Combat Fake News on Social Media

• Kim et al, 2019
• Brandtzaeg et al, 2017

Rating Reliability in News Articles – AI Assistance

• Horne et al, 2019
• Savage, 2021

Social Norms in Fighting Social Media Fake News

• Gimpel et al, 2021

Methodology

• Group of social media users
• Review news articles and rate the trustworthiness of the article
• Present truth/fact ratings of articles
• Rate trustworthiness of the fact rating type and re-score trustworthiness of the article

Discussion

People believe what they want to believe

• Moravec et al, 2019

Weakness: Cognitive Bias