Elena-Alexandra Dumitru
Testing Children and Adolescents’ Ability to Identify Fake News: A Combined Design of Quasi-Experiment and Group Discussions
National School of Political Science and Public Administration
nowadays people increasingly choose turn internet especially social media news types content often questioning trustworthiness information acute form problem children adolescents tend include use new technologies aspects daily life yet unable distinguish fake news trustful information online environment study based dutch empirical study conducted romania examine whether schoolchildren adolescents able identify hoax website fake using selfadministrative questionnaire open group discussions given online source similar studies based research design research aims explore vulnerability students fake news way experience experimental situation exposed online fake information exploratory study revealed children adolescents preoccupied trustworthiness information exposed social media 4 54 students stated would choose save fake animal hoax website four reasons proved perceive information hoax thus participants proved would act upon exposed fake information even trust source