Before revision:   Offline questionnaires reveal that anger leads to more incentivized audiences in terms of anxiety management and information sharing and accordingly makes fake news more contagious than real news online . Our results suggest that the digital contagion of emotions, in particular anger, should be comprehensively considered in profiling the spread of online information . Cures such as tagging anger in social media could be implemented to slow or prevent the contagion of fake news at the source.
After revision:  Offline questionnaires reveal that anger leads to more incentivized audiences in terms of anxiety management and information sharing and accordingly makes fake news more contagious than real news online . Cures such as tagging anger in social media could be implemented to slow or prevent the contagion of fake news at the source.