Spreading rumors on the social media site "Facebook" and mechanisms for confronting them: an applied study on the publications of the "Fatabayyano" platform from Augst 2021 to January 2022

Abstract EN

The research addresses the issue of spreading rumors on social media sites and the mechanisms for confronting them and aims to identify the types of rumors published there, knowing the role of social media sites in spreading the rumor, the factors and sources of its spread on Facebook, through analyzing the rumors monitored by the “Fatabayyano” platform during the study period.

and revealing the mechanisms that the platform used to confront it.

relying on the descriptive analytical approach and the content analysis tool, we finally arrived at results that answered the study's questions.