Does Misinformation Erode Political Trust in Autocracy? - Evidence from the Shuang Huang Lian Incident

• In Event: Regime Support, Trust, and Legitimacy in China

Brief Overview

We used a machine learning analysis of 1420 posts and 386,000 reposts on Sina Weibo to gauge the extent to which misinformation published by the Chinese government has damaged its trustworthiness during the start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020.

Authors

• Yang Zhang, Renmin University of China

• Bin Yu, Xavier University