Problematic social media use is associated with believing in and engaging with fake news

• Dar Meshi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dar Meshi, Maria D. Molina

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: darmeshi@msu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0772-037X

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• Maria D. Molina

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dar Meshi, Maria D. Molina

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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