Table 5.
Logit regression: reaction likelihood.
| Dependent variable: Reaction likelihood* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model A | Model B | Model C | Model D | Model E | Model F | |
| Perceived veracity: misleading | −0.42*** | −0.43*** | −0.40*** | −0.40*** | −0.37*** | −0.43*** |
| (0.08) | (0.09) | (0.11) | (0.11) | (0.09) | (0.10) | |
| Perceived veracity: fake | −0.46*** | −0.54*** | −0.35** | −0.35** | −0.27** | −0.33** |
| (0.09) | (0.12) | (0.17) | (0.17) | (0.14) | (0.16) | |
| Misleading news | 0.15** | 0.51* | 0.52 | 0.09 | 0.01 | |
| (0.07) | (0.31) | (0.37) | (0.15) | (0.17) | ||
| Fake news | 0.72*** | 0.12 | −0.32 | 0.31* | 0.38** | |
| (0.10) | (0.31) | (0.35) | (0.16) | (0.18) | ||
| Perceived veracity*misleading news | −0.01 | −0.01 | 0.04 | 0.14 | ||
| (0.13) | (0.13) | (0.10) | (0.11) | |||
| Perceived veracity* fake news | 0.56*** | 0.56*** | 0.46*** | 0.61*** | ||
| (0.16) | (0.16) | (0.13) | (0.16) | |||
| Participant fixed effects | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tweet fixed effects | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Control variables | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Constant | −0.30*** | −2.02*** | −2.07*** | −2.07*** | −0.39*** | −2.33*** |
| (0.06) | (0.66) | (0.66) | (0.66) | (0.07) | (0.62) | |
| Observations | 3,872 | 3,872 | 3,872 | 3,872 | 3,872 | 3,872 |
| Log likelihood | −2576.12 | −1922.59 | −1915.72 | −1915.72 | −2522.41 | −2045.68 |
| Akaike inf. Crit. | 5162.24 | 4153.18 | 4143.43 | 4143.43 | 5072.82 | 4345.37 |
p<0.1;
p<0.05;
p<0.01.
*A reaction is defined as any combination or use of likes, retweets, and comments.
Analysis of the data was done using the stargazer package (Hlavac, 2018).