أساليب مواجهة الشائعات على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي كما تراها النخبة الإعلامية الأكاديمية : المصرية-و السعودية

Abstract EN

This study aims at exploring how the academic media elite perceive the reasons as well as the sources of prevalent rumors in the Arab world especially after the changes that have taken place in these communities.

The study also aims at knowing the media elites' viewpoints about these rumors and their effects on the society and how to confront these rumors on social media as seen by the Egyptian and Saudi media elite specialists.

This study is a descriptive study that attempts to identify and describe the most important techniques of facing these rumors as seen by the academic media elite in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The study employs the survey approach which surveys the study sample whose number is 100 persons.

Results
- The media eminent specialists in Egypt and k.

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a have confirmed that social media have increased the number of rumors and its speedy prevailing, which threatens the social and national security, the thing that requires us to be cautious all the time and to deal with these rumors in a professional, scientific and multifaceted way.

- The factors that help these rumors spread are multi-sided; they include factors related to social media networks, public institutions and mass media.

- The mistaken handling of some rumors may result in prevailing them more and increases their likelihood among the mass especially if this treatment have adopted a method of camouflage and opacity.