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AS IT IS 2017-03-27 The Importance of Sharing on Social Media

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What is more important to you when you read a news story on social media: the news agency or reporter who actually wrote the story or the person who shares it?

 

A new study has found that many Americans are more likely to believe information shared by someone they trust. The source of the information is not as important to them.

 

Survey Results

 

In 2016, the Media Insight Project did a survey about trust and news on the social media service Facebook. It found that two-thirds of Facebook-using Americans said their trust in a news source had an important effect on their belief of the information.

 

Only 48 percent said their trust in the person sharing a story had an important effect on how they much trusted that information.

 

The Media Insight Project decided to set up an experiment to see if these findings were correct.

 

Experiment results: Americans more influenced by sharer

 

The results of the experiment were different from those in the 2016 survey.

 

The experiment found that a trusted sharer has more of an effect than a reputable media source. In other words, people were more likely to believe news shared by someone they trusted.

 

Many of those questioned did not even remember the source after seeing a Facebook-style post.

 

"If there's somebody I like and agree with, they can have a big influence not only in what I look at, but in whether I believe it or not. I trust them and I convey that trust to the news that they share," said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute.

 

Survey organizers write that "people make little distinction between known and unknown (even made-up) sources when it comes to trusting and sharing news."

 

Implications

 

The writers say the findings are important for members of the news media, news literacy activists, and social media networks.

 

There has been a lot of talk recently about “fake news” -- misinformation spread through social media and news media organizations.

 

Facebook is now taking steps to call attention to fake news stories.

 

"It's important we give people the tools to make smart decisions about content," said Justin Osofsky, Facebook's vice president of global operations and media partnerships.

 

Critics have suggested that Facebook's decision to identify stories as false, instead of removing them from its website, shows the service is not doing enough.

 

The project's findings show that news organizations should pay attention to how stories spread through social media. They might even want to consider sharing news by competitors in the hope they will do the same, said Rosenstiel.

 

Readers "are not just your audience anymore," he said. "They're your ambassadors."


Words in This Story

 

survey – n. an activity in which many people are asked a question or a series of questions in order to gather information about what most people do or think about something

 

reputable – adj. respected and trusted by most people

 

source n. the cause of something; someone or something that provides something

 

audiencen. a group of readers or listeners

 

fakeadj. of or relating to a copy; not true or real

 

literacy – adj. the ability to read and write; knowledge that relates to a subject

 

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