Table 7.
Result of hypothesis testing.
| Hypothesis | Path | Model A |
Model B |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ß | Support | ß | Support | ||
| H1 | INS → SR | 0.36 | Yes | 0.31 | Yes |
| H2 | INS → LT | 0.30 | Yes | 0.24 | Yes |
| H3 | AC → SR | -0.28 | Yes | -0.07 | No |
| H4 | AC → LT | -0.15 | Yes | -0.24 | Yes |
| H5 | PC → SR | 0.05 | No | -0.10 | No |
| H6 | PC → LT | -0.02 | No | -0.18 | Yes |
| H7 | AN → SR | 0.12 | No | -0.24 | No |
| H8 | AN → LT | -0.01 | No | 0.10 | No |
Note: AC: active corrective action on fake news; PC: passive corrective action on fake news; INS: instantaneous sharing of news for creating awareness; AN: authenticating news before sharing; LT: sharing fake news due to lack of time; SR: sharing fake news due to religiosity.