Techniques of University Youth in Verifying Fake Social Media News: A Qualitative Study

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Instructor of radio and television technology, The Higher Institute of Information Technology, Minia, Egypt

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The study aimed to reveal the techniques of university youth used in verifying the authenticity of fake news on social networking sites. They are deliberately selected from a set of criteria. The study concluded several results, the most important of which are: that fake news has become an integral part of the news environment, and that Egyptian university youth are no less involved in digital social worlds than their counterparts in Arab or Western societies, also came from: “WhatsApp” and “Facebook” “In the forefront of the sites and applications that these young people interact with, and the university sample of the study unanimously agreed that e-learning is the most important pluses of social networking sites, while the circulation of rumors and fake news is the most prominent negative. In a related context, the young people participating in the study gave an understanding of fake news, and these young people seek to verify the authenticity of the news circulated on social networking sites, using two stages, the first internal, and the second external.

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