Table 4 Deliberate and accidental sharing of fake news by country.
From: Ability of detecting and willingness to share fake news
Deliberate sharing | Accidental sharing | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
Germany | UK | Germany | UK | |
Female (ref:male) | − 0.066 | − 0.076+ | 0.002 | − 0.225** |
(0.044) | (0.041) | (0.059) | (0.081) | |
Age | − 0.002 | − 0.009*** | − 0.007** | − 0.021*** |
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.004) | |
High educated (ref:low edu) | − 0.030 | − 0.078+ | − 0.121* | − 0.006 |
(0.042) | (0.041) | (0.059) | (0.082) | |
Separated/Single (ref:married/coh) | 0.030 | − 0.036 | − 0.067 | − 0.078 |
(0.045) | (0.042) | (0.067) | (0.087) | |
Middle income (ref:low) | 0.004 | 0.019 | − 0.031 | − 0.071 |
(0.059) | (0.048) | (0.085) | (0.098) | |
High income (ref:low) | 0.037 | 0.124+ | − 0.164 | − 0.164 |
(0.076) | (0.069) | (0.106) | (0.128) | |
Unemployed (ref:employed) | − 0.003 | 0.153 | 0.231 | − 0.357+ |
(0.128) | (0.179) | (0.307) | (0.215) | |
Out of labor force (ref:employed) | − 0.003 | 0.036 | − 0.094 | − 0.119 |
(0.053) | (0.054) | (0.065) | (0.091) | |
Center (ref:left) | − 0.057 | 0.033 | 0.094 | 0.227* |
(0.054) | (0.049) | (0.060) | (0.094) | |
Right (ref:left) | − 0.046 | 0.113+ | 0.239* | 0.596*** |
(0.065) | (0.064) | (0.101) | (0.125) | |
Constant | 0.362** | 0.679*** | 0.770*** | 1.702*** |
(0.126) | (0.123) | (0.158) | (0.273) | |
N | 1223 | 1156 | 1223 | 1156 |
Adj. R− sq | 0.000 | 0.023 | 0.016 | 0.050 |
