The Manipulative Nature of the Articles Published by Influential Official Accounts on WeChat

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10.2991/assehr.k.200312.014How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WeChat, official accounts, social media, manipulation of public opinion

Abstract

In China, more people started to get update of events happening around the world through social media platforms such as WeChat or Weibo. Even though these social media platforms provide a more entertaining and more convenient sources of information, the often have titles which appeal to readers’ curiosity and emotions as well as contents that are infused with sensational phrasing, which greatly undermines the credibility of the information provided. Drawing upon the case study of Wanzhou Meng, the financial executive of Huawei Corporation and the daughter of Zhengfei Ren, the president of Huawei, this article investigated how social media platforms report the issue analyzing several dimensions of news-reporting, such as the choices of words as well as the news intentions.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Menglin Shi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/18
TI  - The Manipulative Nature of the Articles Published by Influential Official Accounts on WeChat
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 72
EP  - 77
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200312.014
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200312.014
ID  - Shi2020
ER  -