Research on the Impact of Post-Truth News Events on Peoples Media Literacy: Taking TikTok Feminist Topics as an Example

Abstract

With the development of electronic media, media communication platforms have become mass-marketed. Technologically empowered non-professional journalists can also publish news on public communication channels. The greatly lowered barrier to entry for news dissemination practitioners can lead to the emergence of poor-quality content that lacks depth, accuracy, and authority on the Internet. Therefore, through literature research and hierarchical interviews with users of the ShakeNews platform, this paper takes news events on feminist topics on the ShakeNews platform as a starting point, focusing on how the emergence of post-truth reversal news affects the audiences news literacy. The specific research questions of this paper are: Does the reverse news have an impact on the audiences news literacy? How? What are the influencing factors? Will the audiences news literacy continue to decline under the impact of reverse news? There is an impact of reverse news events on the news literacy of the public. Specifically, it is manifested in: the impact of attitudes towards news events. The impact on the attitude of the news protagonist and the audiences thoughts on obtaining information; The impact on the audiences information processing skills.