This study uses the “information game” paradigm to explore the influence of information
characteristics on users’ information dissemination behavior in online social media. Experiments 1 and
2 investigated the tendency of individuals to make information dissemination decisions in terms of the
valence characteristics of information and the degree of profit loss, respectively. The higher the probability
of information being true, the more obvious the separation effect of trust and forwarding probability
between gain and loss conditions; (4) Individuals have the strongest tendency to trust the lowest profit
gain when faced with profit information, and the strongest tendency to trust a medium-sized loss when
faced with loss information.