Biography
Fangjing Tu is a researcher at the Stanford Social Media Lab, within the Cyber Policy Center. Her research centers on how to cultivate informed and participatory citizens in the current media environment. Her approach spans misinformation, media psychology, political communication, journalism, and science communication.
Current research
Empowering social media users: nudge toward self-engaged verification for improved truth and sharing discernment
How can we empower social media users to better discern the veracity of news and share less false news? This survey experiment (N = 636) assessed the effectiveness of two interventions—signing a Pro-Truth Pledge and utilizing a Fact-Checking Guide.
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Reviving the “Yellow Peril” Digitally: Anti-Asian Hate on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Racist sentiments against Asian, specifically Chinese, communities have risen alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining Twitter data, employment data, and COVID-19 case data, this study uses interrupted time series analysis and traditional time series analysis to investigate how the revival of anti-Asian sentiments on Twitter has been facilitated by the combination of elite discourse on social media, economic slowdown, and public health crises.
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Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media
How credulous are we when engaging information on social media? Addressing this question, this article aims to understand how individuals’ epistemic vigilance, a set of cognitive mechanisms that comprise our system of precaution in social interactions, may operate and fall short.
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