Table 1. Participant characteristics.

	TikTok treatment frequencies/mean	Twitter treatment frequencies/mean	x²/F	p-value
Categorial variables
Gender	Male (9)Female (11)	Male (9)Female (11)	.000^a
National	China (10)Korea (4)Bangladesh (6)	China (10)Korea (5)Bangladesh (5)	.202	.904
Age	18–25 (8)26–30(11)31–40(1)	18–25 (9)26–30(8)31–40(3)	1.533	.465
Degree	Bachelor's degree (2)Master's degree (13)Doctorate (5)	Bachelor's degree (0)Master's degree (15)Doctorate (5)	2.143	.343
Ordered variables
Use frequency	3.2100	3.6000	.470	.497
Topic interest	4.5167	4.8500	.792	.379
Political interest	3.9750	4.6250	2.355	.133
Credibility platform	3.1500	3.8929	6.856	.013^*

p-values are derived from Pearson x²-tests for categorical variables and F-tests for the ordered variables,
N=40, 0 cells (0.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 9.00.
p<.05,
p<.01,
p<.001.