organizations fighting the spread of fake news are among the key actors which might
be able to counter the distribution of misleading information online.
By providing this theoretical brief review about the UGT, the filter bubble
phenomenon and the re-sharing behavior on social media, the framework of this
study is now clearer. The members of the
Ellinika Hoaxes Facebook group are
studied based on UGT’s approach and they are conceptualized as an active audience
which use media to fulfill its need for quality journalism and information beyond its
filter bubble. In a sense, in order to investigate the ways these Greek users spot fake
news on social media and counter its spread, it is important to understand these
specific users as an active audience, which seeks for facts and data and tries to verify
whether a story distributed on social media is true or not by using the social media
platforms themselves, the Internet and other media. Therefore, their online behavior
needs to be studied as well, in order to better answer the RQs of this study and come
up with conclusions about the way the members of the
Ellinika Hoaxes Facebook
group manage to use specific media to identify fake news and counter its spread.
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