This exploratory study seeks to understand the diffusion of disinformation by examining how
social media users respond to fake news and why. Using a mixed-methods approach in an
explanatory-sequential design, this study combines results from a national survey involving
2501 respondents with a series of in-depth interviews with 20 participants from the small but
economically and technologically advanced nation of Singapore. This study finds that most
social media users in Singapore just ignore the fake news posts they come across on social …