If you have an account on a social media platform, then chances are, you have probably reshared something with your network that someone else shared first. It might be a meme, a good joke, or a news story. That tendency to share content has a potential dark side because it can lead to the spread of misinformation.
For this reason, it is valuable to understand the factors that drive people to share news stories they encounter on social media. In particular, it would be useful to know whether those factors drive the sharing of misinformation, defined as stories that contain significant false information.
This was explored in a 2025 paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by a group of 10 authors led by Suhaib Abdurahman from the University of Southern California. They were interested in the relationship between a social media post and the recipient's moral values.
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