Regulating Fake News Content during COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence-based Reality, Trustworthy Sources, and Responsible Media Reporting
Doina Popescu Ljungholm, Marilena Lavinia OlahABSTRACT. We draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on regulating fake news content during COVID-19 pandemic, and to explore this, we inspected, used, and replicated survey data from Pew Research Center and Statista, performing analyses and making estimates regarding finding reliable news and information for updates on COVID-19 and role of social media companies according to Internet users. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the proposed conceptual model.
Keywords: fake news; COVID-19; trustworthy source; responsible media reporting
How to cite: Popescu Ljungholm, D., and Olah, M. L. (2020). “Regulating Fake News Content during COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence-based Reality, Trustworthy Sources, and Responsible Media Reporting,” Review of Contemporary Philosophy 19: 43–49. doi:10.22381/RCP1920203
Received 1 May 2020 • Received in revised form 17 June 2020
Accepted 18 June 2020 • Available online 19 June 2020