{"id":224492,"date":"2026-05-08T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224492"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:54:50","slug":"social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224492","title":{"rendered":"Social media influencers increase the toxicity and power of misinformation, research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media influencers (SMIs) can perpetuate the flow of misinformation online because of the unique relationship they have with their followers, research led by Cardiff Business School finds. For an article published in the journal Psychology &#038; Marketing, academics analyzed brand-related misinformation and associated user comments spanning 47 brands across nine industries over a three-year period&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-social-media-toxicity-power-misinformation.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media influencers (SMIs) can perpetuate the flow of misinformation online because of the unique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224492-social-media-influencers-increase-the-toxicity-and-power-of-misinformation-research-shows.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}