In the current era of social media culture, almost everyone's social life is inseparable from media. Especially since the outbreak of COVID-19, the way most people communicate has shifted to online, and the release of information on social media has seen an explosion. However, the information spread on social media platforms is not all positive, and there is many fake news mixed in and continuously spread. Different types of publishers have different effects on their audiences, and their

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... es react differently. This paper uses thematic analysis and selects the content of a fake news tweet published by a journalist, and studies the content of its popular comments to summarize the audience's response. The results turned out that the responses of its audience fall into three broad themes: unequivocal belief, decisive denial, and skepticism.