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  • Social Media Studies
  • Computational Social Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Social media platforms face challenges with misinformation and harmful language.
  • Research on these two problematic content types has largely progressed independently.
  • Understanding the interplay between misinformation and harmful language is crucial for platform governance and user well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between the sharing of misinformation and the use of harmful language on social media.
  • To determine if users who spread misinformation also tend to use more harmful language.
  • To explore the connection between information quality and the presence of harmful language.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a large dataset of 8,687,758 posts from 6,832 Twitter (X) users.
  • Examination of 14,617 true and false headlines from professional fact-checking websites.
  • Statistical modeling to assess associations between misinformation indicators and harmful language metrics.

Main Results:

  • Significant positive associations were found between misinformation and harmful language.
  • Twitter posts linking to lower-quality news outlets contained more harmful language (β = 0.10).
  • False headlines exhibited more harmful language than true headlines (β = 0.19).
  • Users sharing low-quality news also used more harmful language, even in unrelated posts (β = 0.13).

Conclusions:

  • Misinformation and harmful language are interconnected phenomena, not entirely distinct.
  • While associated, harmful language is not a reliable sole indicator of information quality.
  • Findings highlight the need to integrate research on misinformation and harmful language to understand their psychological underpinnings.