Fake news is on the rise on many social media platforms. The proliferation of fake news is concerning, yet little is known about the characteristics that may motivate social media users to denounce (or ignore) fake news when they see it posted by strangers, close friends, and family members. Active social media users (N = 218) completed an online survey examining psychological characteristics (i.e., misinformation correction importance, self-esteem) and communicative characteristics (i.e., argumentativeness, conflict style) that may relate to an individual's willingness to denounce fake news posted by either strangers or close friends/family members. Participants examined several manipulated fake news scenarios differing in political alignment and relevant topic content within a Facebook news article format. Results indicated that misinformation correction importance was positively related to willingness to denounce in the context of close friends and family, but not with strangers. Moreover, participants with higher self-esteem were less likely to denounce fake news posted by strangers (but not posted by close friends and family), which suggests that confident individuals prefer to avoid challenging people outside of their close ties. Argumentativeness was positively related to willingness to denounce fake news in all scenarios no matter the user's relationship to the fake news poster. Results for conflict styles were mixed. These findings provide preliminary evidence for how psychological, communicative, and relationship characteristics relate to social media users' decision to denounce (or ignore) fake news posted on a social media platform.

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与社交媒体用户谴责假新闻意愿相关的心理、沟通和关系特征。

许多社交媒体平台上的假新闻呈上升趋势。假新闻的泛滥令人担忧，但人们对社交媒体用户在看到陌生人、亲密朋友和家人发布的假新闻时可能会谴责（或忽视）假新闻的特征知之甚少。活跃的社交媒体用户（N = 218）完成了一项在线调查，检查可能与个人谴责所发布虚假新闻的意愿相关的心理特征（即错误信息纠正重要性、自尊）和沟通特征（即争论性、冲突风格）陌生人或亲密的朋友/家人。参与者检查了 Facebook 新闻文章格式中政治立场和相关主题内容不同的几个被操纵的假新闻场景。结果表明，错误信息纠正的重要性与在亲密朋友和家人的背景下谴责的意愿呈正相关，但与陌生人无关。此外，自尊心较高的参与者不太可能谴责陌生人发布的假新闻（但不是由亲密的朋友和家人发布的），这表明自信的人更愿意避免挑战亲密关系之外的人。无论用户与假新闻发布者的关系如何，争论性与在所有情况下谴责假新闻的意愿呈正相关。冲突风格的结果好坏参半。这些发现为心理、沟通和关系特征与社交媒体用户谴责（或忽略）社交媒体平台上发布的虚假新闻的决定之间的关系提供了初步证据。