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. 2022 Jul 26;13:859534. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859534

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).