I don't use social media either so I can't help with your research, but still bump and good luck for you.
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I think you might have forgotten to add in another option in most of your questions which made it very hard for me to answer your questions the best I can :P - I get most of my information from social media accounts of established news sites.
I think there are also some people who get their information from YouTube vids (created by news sites, the government, etc) so you might want to add that in as an option? According to Google at least (did only a brief search though), YouTube is a type of social media.
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I recommend you taking a look at what Taiwan has done in this regard, if you haven't already: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52883838
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Banning content will never be effective on social media.
I have an extended family member who is an alt-right conspiracy theorist. Facebook takes down their trash, so they share it via messenger. "Quick, forward this to 10 friends. FB is trying to silence us." I told her to please stop sending chain messages to me, but she does it to other members of my family. No one likes getting messages like that. But it's clear how misinformation is being spread among various extreme circles.
These people also say 'I did my research and saw this on youtube." The sad thing is that most of these people are uneducated, so they've never been taught at college/uni how to fact check information and how to identify a credible source.
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I guess that government source is identified as a 'reliable source of information' in this study. However, things are completely different in Hong Kong, as our government is helping China's government to cover up information about the Covid. While most local medias were already reporting news about the Covid at late January, Hong Kong government just told us not to spread fake news.
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Hey hi guys,
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I want to do a research about the social media's impact from the users perspective regarding covid-19 and the spread of false/misinformation. We would like to come up with solutions on how a government or an official actor should spread information on social media by alternative ways. But at first we would like to understand the users' view, so if you could help us out by filling out this short survey we would be really grateful.
The survey can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/JzTqZXLDezqPPEzQ8
I'm not a native speaker so there are spelling and phrasing problems, I do apologise in advance for that.
Bit of information of what we are trying to do:
We saw the impact of social media during the pandemic. It's also seems to be clear that it is now the primary news source of people. But the problem is, it is not being double-checked or backed up with any proof. Anyone can post anything, come up with claims, legends and it can spread quickly. Unfortunately what we have seen and learnt that banning social media pages/groups/people who spread misinformation is not a solituon. They are usually back in a day and they continue what they did before for a period of time. What we try to do is, find soltuions on how official trusted actors can quickly spread information to the users by some alternative means. But first in order to do this first we need to have a general view from the users' perspective and thats what this survey can help us.
By filling this out (and sometimes bumping this thread) would be a great and amazing help for us.
Thanks guys :)
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