As the prevalence of online misinformation grows increasingly apparent, our need to understand its spread becomes more essential. Trolling, in particular, may aggravate the spread of misinformation online. While many studies have investigated the negative impact of trolling and misinformation on social media, less attention has been devoted to the relationships between the two and their manifestation on social question and answer (SQA) sites. We examine the extent of and relationships between trolling and misinformation on SQA sites. Through content analysis of 8,401 posts (159 questions and 8,242 answers) from the Yahoo Answers! Politics & Government and Society & Culture categories, we identified levels of and relationships between misinformation and trolling. We find that trolling and misinformation tend to reinforce themselves and each other and that trolling and misinformation are more common in the Politics & Government category than in the Society & Culture category. Our study is among the first to consider the prevalence of and relationship between misinformation and trolling on SQA sites.

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两个雅虎上的错误信息和愤怒的拖钓策略之间的关系！答案类别

随着在线错误信息的流行越来越明显，我们需要了解其传播情况变得更加重要。尤其是拖钓可能会加剧错误信息在网上的传播。虽然许多研究调查了社交媒体上的拖钓和错误信息的负面影响，但很少有人关注这两者之间的关系及其在社交问答 (SQA) 网站上的表现。我们检查了 SQA 网站上的拖钓和错误信息之间的关系。通过对来自 Yahoo Answers! 的 8,401 个帖子（159 个问题和 8,242 个答案）的内容分析！政治与政府与社会与文化类别，我们确定了错误信息和拖钓之间的级别和关系。我们发现拖钓和错误信息往往会相互强化，而且拖钓和错误信息在政治和政府类别中比在社会和文化类别中更常见。我们的研究是第一个考虑错误信息和 SQA 网站上的拖钓行为的普遍性和关系的研究之一。