Fake news detection on social media: the predictive role of university students’ critical thinking dispositions and new media literacy

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the predictive role of critical thinking dispositions and new media literacies on ability detect fake news social media. The sample group consisted 157 university students. Sosu Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale, New Media Literacy detection task were employed gather data. It was found that students possess high as well abilities there is a positive moderate relationship among these variables. Also, this revealed significantly predicted students’ they together explained 18% total variance detection. Besides, presented larger effect their than literacies.