Table 3 Detecting and sharing fake news by country.
From: Ability of detecting and willingness to share fake news
Detecting fake news | Sharing fake news | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
Germany | UK | Germany | UK | |
Female (ref:male) | − 1.187*** | − 0.451* | − 0.051 | − 0.408** |
(0.199) | (0.202) | (0.090) | (0.125) | |
Age | 0.044*** | 0.021* | − 0.011** | − 0.040*** |
(0.008) | (0.009) | (0.004) | (0.006) | |
High educated (ref:low edu) | 0.544* | 0.028 | − 0.157+ | − 0.037 |
(0.212) | (0.205) | (0.087) | (0.128) | |
Separated/Single (ref:married/coh) | 0.187 | 0.207 | − 0.038 | − 0.204 |
(0.220) | (0.220) | (0.097) | (0.130) | |
Middle income (ref:low) | 0.131 | 0.499* | − 0.007 | − 0.047 |
(0.287) | (0.237) | (0.124) | (0.142) | |
High income (ref:low) | 0.880* | 0.954** | − 0.132 | − 0.062 |
(0.386) | (0.326) | (0.157) | (0.195) | |
Unemployed (ref:employed) | − 1.131 | 0.062 | 0.599 | − 0.441 |
(0.840) | (0.748) | (0.635) | (0.375) | |
Out of labor force (ref:employed) | − 0.024 | 0.197 | − 0.112 | − 0.116 |
(0.271) | (0.237) | (0.099) | (0.132) | |
Center (ref:left) | − 0.602* | − 0.889*** | 0.006 | 0.346* |
(0.252) | (0.261) | (0.099) | (0.143) | |
Right (ref:left) | − 0.372 | − 1.027** | 0.320+ | 1.027*** |
(0.352) | (0.314) | (0.169) | (0.199) | |
Constant | 22.031*** | 22.050*** | 1.273*** | 3.111*** |
(0.609) | (0.601) | (0.255) | (0.414) | |
N | 1223 | 1156 | 1223 | 1156 |
Adj. R-sq | 0.070 | 0.021 | 0.015 | 0.074 |
