...Zohaib Riaz; Tahir Mumtaz Awan; Abid Saeed Purpose This study examines the impact of social media affordances (SMAs) on the user response of Pakistani millennials toward fake news. This study aims to examine the impact of anonymity, visibility and metavoicing affordances over user behavior...

...Amal Dabbous; Karine Aoun Barakat Purpose The spread of fake news represents a serious threat to consumers, companies and society. Previous studies have linked emotional arousal to an increased propensity to spread information and a decrease in people’s ability to recognize fake news. However...

...Krishnadas Nanath; Supriya Kaitheri; Sonia Malik; Shahid Mustafa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that significantly affect the prediction of fake news from the virality theory perspective. The paper looks at a mix of emotion-driven content, sentimental resonance, topic...