A War of (Mis)Information: The Political Effects of Rumors and Rumor Rebuttals in an Authoritarian Country

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  British Journal of Political Science

• Publication date

  2015-07-24

• Fields of study

  Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/S0007123415000253
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Propaganda as Signaling

  2017influential reference
• International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations in a Changing Society: The Case of China

  2015cited by this paper
• Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

  2015cited by this paper
• Electoral Consequences of Political Rumors: Motivated Reasoning, Candidate Rumors, and Vote Choice during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

  2014cited by this paper
• Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion

  2014cited by this paper
• China's Strategic Censorship

  2014cited by this paper
• Do Chinese People Trust Their Local Government, and Why?

  2014cited by this paper
• American Conspiracy Theories

  2014cited by this paper
• Collective attention in the age of (mis)information

  2014cited by this paper
• Partisans in Robes: Party Cues and Public Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions

  2014cited by this paper
• Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation

  2014cited by this paper
• War of Position and Microblogging in China

  2013cited by this paper
• How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation

  2013cited by this paper
• How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression

  2013influential reference
• When Grapevine News Meets Mass Media

  2013cited by this paper
• Blocked on Weibo

  2013cited by this paper
• Data collection in a flat world: the strengths and weaknesses of mechanical turk samples

  2013cited by this paper
• The Magnitude and Resilience of Trust in the Center

  2013cited by this paper
• Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony

  2013cited by this paper
• The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter

  2012cited by this paper
• The Debunking Handbook

  2012cited by this paper
• Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk

  2012cited by this paper
• Polarizing cues.

  2012cited by this paper
• Automatic detection of rumor on Sina Weibo

  2012cited by this paper
• Changing Media, Changing China

  2012influential reference
• Polarizing Cues

  2011cited by this paper
• Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Laboratory Experiments in Political Science

  2011cited by this paper
• Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions about Emergent Technologies

  2011cited by this paper
• Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring

  2011cited by this paper
• Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS

  2011cited by this paper
• Rumors, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation

  2011influential reference
• Dominating Cues and the Limits of Elite Influence

  2011cited by this paper
• What Trends in Chinese Social Media

  2011cited by this paper
• Amazon's Mechanical Turk

  2011cited by this paper
• Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Social Networks and Political Context

  2011cited by this paper
• When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions

  2010cited by this paper
• Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation

  2010cited by this paper
• A validation of Amazon Mechanical Turk for the collection of acceptability judgments in linguistic theory

  2010cited by this paper
• Why Resource-poor Dictators Allow Freer Media: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data

  2009cited by this paper
• Laboratory Experiments in Political Science

  2009cited by this paper
• Source Cues, Partisan Identities, and Political Value Expression

  2009cited by this paper
• How Idle is Idle Talk? One Hundred Years of Rumor Research

  2007cited by this paper
• Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies

  2007cited by this paper
• A Theory of Framing and Opinion Formation in Competitive Elite Environments

  2007cited by this paper
• Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns

  2007cited by this paper
• Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches

  2006cited by this paper
• Popular Political Support in Urban China

  2005cited by this paper
• CHAPTER 5: The Structure of Political Argument and the Logic of Issue Framing

  2004cited by this paper
• Studies in public opinion : attitudes, nonattitudes, measurement error, and change

  2004cited by this paper
• “I am not guilty” vs “I am innocent”: Successful negation may depend on the schema used for its encoding☆

  2004cited by this paper
• Cultural Values and Political Trust: A Comparison of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan

  2001cited by this paper
• The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement

  2001cited by this paper
• Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. Lisa Wedeen

  2001cited by this paper
• Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America

  2001cited by this paper
• On the Limits of Framing Effects: Who Can Frame?

  2001cited by this paper
• Sources of the continued influence effect: When misinformation in memory affects later inferences.

  1994cited by this paper
• Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias: Information and Voting Behavior in California Insurance Reform Elections

  1994cited by this paper
• The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.

  1994cited by this paper
• On Hearing and Interpreting Political Messages: A Cautionary Tale of Citizen Cue-Taking

  1994cited by this paper
• Source Cues and Policy Approval: The Cognitive Dynamics of Public Support for the Reagan Agenda

  1993cited by this paper
• Rumor rebuttal in the marketplace

  1992cited by this paper
• The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion: Contents

  1992cited by this paper
• Rumors: Uses, Interpretations, and Images

  1990influential reference
• The birth of the propaganda state : Soviet methods of mass mobilization, 1917-1929

  1985cited by this paper
• The Birth Of The Propaganda State

  1985cited by this paper
• The Value of Biased Information: A Rational Choice Model of Political Advice

  1985cited by this paper
• Perseverance in self-perception and social perception: biased attributional processes in the debriefing paradigm.

  1975cited by this paper
• Rumors, Race and Riots

  1975cited by this paper
• Word-of-mouth communication in the Soviet Union

  1954cited by this paper
• A PSYCHOLOGY OF RUMOR

  1944cited by this paper

• Introduction to the forum: Flooding the zone: Paths forward for information quality, misinformation, and disinformation work

  2026cites this paper
• Rumor management during natural disasters: A "whole of government" coordination perspective

  2026cites this paper
• Reckoning with Reality: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power

  2025cites this paper
• Trust in institutions and misinformation susceptibility both independently explain vaccine skepticism

  2025cites this paper
• News Translation as a Means of Fake News Dissemination on Social Media

  2025cites this paper
• Can Correction Messages Reduce the Spread of Fake News on Social Media? The Impact of Information Updates on the Effectiveness of Corrections

  2025cites this paper
• How manipulating information affects information diffusion during disasters: The effects of modifying falsehoods versus corrections

  2025cites this paper
• Crisis and Correction: Do Government Rectification Efforts Restore Citizen Trust After Governance Failure?

  2025cites this paper
• When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries

  2025cites this paper
• The Supply of Conspiracism in State-Controlled Media

  2025cites this paper
• Enhancing video rumor detection through multimodal deep feature fusion with time-sync comments

  2025cites this paper
• Fact-checking flagging in the age of AI

  2025cites this paper
• In Punishment We Trust: Analyzing Characteristics and Credibility of Rumor-Debunking Messages on Chinese Social Media

  2024cites this paper
• ‘Living in a post-truth era’? Online misinformation in everyday life in rural and urban China

  2024cites this paper
• The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance

  2024cites this paper
• Understanding the failure of government debunking communication: insights from China

  2024cites this paper
• Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan

  2024cites this paper
• Detecting Social Media Rumor Debunking Effectiveness During Public Health Emergencies: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

  2024cites this paper
• Critical social media and political engagement in authoritarian regimes: the role of state media fairness perceptions

  2024cites this paper
• Emotion Infused Rumour Detection Model using LSTM

  2024cites this paper
• Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

  2024cites this paper
• Political Fact-checking and Its Effects on Public Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from China

  2024cites this paper
• Enhancing misinformation correction: New variants and a combination of awareness training and counter-speech to mitigate belief perseverance bias

  2024cites this paper
• Expert opinion and public support of genetically modified food policy: Does deficit model work in China?

  2024cites this paper
• Heart or mind? The impact of congruence on the persuasiveness of cognitive versus affective appeals in debunking messages on social media during public health crises

  2024cites this paper
• Online repression and transnational social movements: Thailand and the #MilkTeaAlliance

  2024cites this paper
• Effective mitigation of the belief perseverance bias after the retraction of misinformation: Awareness training and counter-speech

  2023cites this paper
• How does perceptions of social justice affect farmers’ political participation?—Evidence from China

  2023cites this paper
• The Double-Edged Sword of State Media Credibility: Experimental Evidence from China

  2023cites this paper
• Regulatory transparency and citizen support for government decisions: evidence from nuclear power acceptance in China

  2023influential citation
• Fake News for All: How Citizens Discern Disinformation in Autocracies

  2023cites this paper
• The Paradox of Information Control Under Authoritarianism: Explaining Trust in Competing Messages in China

  2023influential citation
• How does the development of COVID-19 affect the public's engagement to fake news rebuttal microblogs?

  2023cites this paper
• RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysing the political effects of ‘fake news’ deflections in the UK

  2023cites this paper
• Determinants of debunking information sharing behaviour in social media users: perspective of persuasive cues

  2023cites this paper
• Exploring the sentimental features of rumor messages and investors' intention to invest during a pandemic

  2023cites this paper
• Message or Messenger? Source and Labeling Effects in Authoritarian Response to Protest

  2023influential citation
• Acquiescence Bias Inflates Estimates of Conspiratorial Beliefs and Political Misperceptions

  2023influential citation
• Public Acceptance of Policy Instruments: Evidence from Traffic-Related Smog Control Policies in Beijing

  2023cites this paper
• Heavenly Mandate: Public Opinion and China's Space Activities

  2022cites this paper
• The Supply of Conspiracy Theories in State-Controlled Media *

  2022cites this paper
• Conspiracy Theory Beliefs and Political Trust: The Moderating Role of Political Communication

  2022cites this paper
• WHO approves? Relative trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 vaccines

  2022cites this paper
• Public attitudes towards experts in China

  2022cites this paper
• Investigating Independence vs. Control: Agenda-Setting in Russian News Coverage on Social Media

  2022cites this paper
• Exploring rumor combating behavior of social media on NIMBY conflict: Temporal modes, frameworks and strategies

  2022cites this paper
• Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda

  2022cites this paper
• A Study on the Effectiveness of Rumor Control via Social Media Networks to Alleviate Public Panic About COVID-19

  2022cites this paper
• Social media, fear, and support for state surveillance: The case of China’s social credit system

  2022cites this paper
• Reactions to China-linked Fake News: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan

  2022influential citation
• Cyberbully-in-chief: exploring Donald Trump’s aggressive communication behavior on Twitter

  2022cites this paper
• Chinese environmental activism and the environmental politics of rumors

  2022cites this paper
• When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms

  2021cites this paper
• From “the Moon Is Rounder Abroad” to “Bravo, My Country”: How China Misperceives the World

  2021cites this paper
• Analysis of User-Generated Comments on Rumor Correction YouTube Videos

  2021cites this paper
• Effects of Sentiments on the Morphing of Falsehoods and Correction Messages on Social Media

  2021cites this paper
• Disinformation and the Structural Transformations of the Public Arena: Addressing the Actual Challenges to Democracy

  2021cites this paper
• Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China

  2021cites this paper
• Information capacity and social order: The local politics of information integration in China

  2021cites this paper
• Dubious until officially censored: Effects of online censorship exposure on viewers’ attitudes in authoritarian regimes

  2021cites this paper
• Determinants of individuals’ belief in fake news: A scoping review determinants of belief in fake news

  2021cites this paper
• Testing Users' Ability to Recognize Fake News in Three Countries. An Experimental Perspective

  2021cites this paper
• Official Truths in a War on Fake News: Governmental Fact-Checking in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand

  2021influential citation
• Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey

  2021cites this paper
• Beliefs in conspiracy theories (CT): the role of country context

  2021cites this paper
• Rumors of Insurgency and Assassination in the Ixcán, Guatemala

  2021cites this paper
• Responsibility Finds A Way: A Typology and Framework Development Approach Towards Public Sector Crisis Management

  2021cites this paper
• What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis

  2021cites this paper
• Mapping the field of misinformation correction and its effects: A review of four decades of research

  2021influential citation
• Citizen journalism reduces the credibility deficit of authoritarian government in risk communication amid COVID-19 outbreaks

  2021cites this paper
• Factors influencing fake news rebuttal acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the moderating effect of cognitive ability

  2021cites this paper
• Dynamic Effects of Falsehoods and Corrections on Social Media: A Theoretical Modeling and Empirical Evidence

  2021influential citation
• Backlash Against Foreign Interference: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan on Reactions to China-linked Fake News

  2021cites this paper
• What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis

  2021cites this paper
• How Corruption Investigations Undermine Regime Support Evidence from China 1

  2021cites this paper
• How do users respond to online rumor rebuttals?

  2020cites this paper
• Social policy, state legitimacy and strategic actors:governmentality and counter-conduct inauthoritarian regime

  2020cites this paper
• How corruption investigations undermine regime support: evidence from China

  2020cites this paper
• Attention-Based LSTM Network for Rumor Veracity Estimation of Tweets

  2020cites this paper
• Censorship Can be Counterproductive: Why Are Certain Kinds of Political Rumors More Credible than Others? A Mixed-Method Study of Chinese Social Media

  2020cites this paper
• Propaganda as Protest Prevention: How Regime Labeling Deters Citizens from Protesting—Without Persuading Them

  2020cites this paper
• Information control by public punishment: The logic of signalling repression in China

  2020cites this paper
• When “Fake News” Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country

  2020influential citation
• China’s mental health support in response to COVID-19: progression, challenges and reflection

  2020cites this paper
• Countering misinformation via WhatsApp: Preliminary evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

  2020cites this paper
• Searching for the Backfire Effect: Measurement and Design Considerations

  2020cites this paper
• The Crisis of Public Health and Infodemic: Analyzing Belief Structure of Fake News about COVID-19 Pandemic

  2020cites this paper
• Are Algorithms a Threat to Democracy? The Rise of Intermediaries: A Challenge for Public Discourse

  2020cites this paper
• Family Matters: Education and the (Conditional) Effect of State Indoctrination in China

  2020cites this paper
• The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia

  2020cites this paper
• Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes

  2020cites this paper
• Fake Claims of Fake News: Political Misinformation, Warnings, and the Tainted Truth Effect

  2020cites this paper
• Family Matters: Education and the (Conditional) Effect of State Indoctrination in China

  2020cites this paper
• Contesting narratives of repression: Experimental evidence from Sisi’s Egypt

  2020cites this paper
• Do People Trust the Government More? Unpacking the Distinct Impacts of Anticorruption Policies on Political Trust

  2020cites this paper
• Social media and counterpublic spheres in an authoritarian state: Exploring online political discussions among Cambodian Facebook users

  2020cites this paper
• Aktuelle Desinformation – Definition und Einordnung einer gesellschaftlichen Herausforderung

  2020cites this paper
• Fake Claims of Fake News: Political Misinformation, Warnings, and the Tainted Truth Effect

  2020cites this paper
• Resilience to Online Censorship

  2020influential citation
• Datafication, dataveillance, and the social credit system as China's new normal

  2019cites this paper