Messages of hate on social networks towards immigrants are shared more if they are also false

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Messages of hate on social networks towards immigrants are shared more if they are also false

The study has been published in the prestigious scientific journal International Journal of Communication and analyzes how the presence of false content (bules) and hate messages towards the immigrant population affects both the credibility of the information and the intention to share it on social networks. Researchers have been analyzing for several years the context of toxic discourses about immigration in Spain. The experiment involved 404 S…