الفهرس 
تداول الشائعات والأخبار المزيفة على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي وتأثيراتها على ثقة المتصفحين
محتويات الدراسةيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
The study aims to monitor and evaluate the users’ attitudes about the role of social media in spreading the rumors and fake news, also its influence on the users trust on social media as being a source of information. This can be applied on some Egyptian real scenarios (Coronavirus Crisis and New Administrative Capital) either from the prospective of the general audience or the experts.
The study measures the variables impacts on evaluating the credibility of social media sites, and how far the sample trusts them. The variables include the exposure intensity to the social media, the extent to which it is reliable, Demographic factors, and the users ability to verify the authenticity of fake news circulating around them. Also, the study analyzes the content of the most prominent pages that verify the validity of the content on Facebook. It includes pages like Presidency of the Egyptian Cabinet, Matsdaksh, and Saheeh Masr, in addition to analyzing them quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the verification tools used by these pages to verify the validity of the content circulating on social media.
The study adopted the hypothesis of the third person effect and the rumors circulation theory as two theoretical frameworks. The sample of the study is 400 social media users. Moreover, the study depended on making in-depth interviews with 20 experts, and media practitioner to draw their evaluation to the phenomena of rumors and fake news spreading, along with its reasons, implications, the mechanism needed to confront them, and the solutions suggested either on the media education level or leveraging from AI applications to counter this phenomenon.
The study proved that there is a clear impact of perceiving the The third-person effect, i.e., people believe that the fake news and rumors on social media will have greater effect on the other audience than on them. In addition, the study revealed the reasons and the consequences of perceiving the third person’s effect in respect of Coronavirus spreading crisis or the New Administrative Capital. Also, the results showed an acceptance to the behavioral hypothesis of the perception of the third person’s influence. This was proved by supporting the Regulatory Restrictions to Combat Fake News, enhancing the digital media literacy approach, consolidating the organizational procedures related to the role of the social media companies, and upholding the legal acts, as well as monitoring the accounts promoting fake news.
The results of the in-depth interviews with the experts proved the necessity of raising the awareness of the journalists and the social media websites users of the tools that verify the validity of the news. The tools include the photos reverse research, identifying the geographical location, and verifying the validity of the videos through making sure of the video metadata.