What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review

SF Tsao, H Chen, T Tisseverasinghe, Y Yang… - The Lancet Digital …, 2021 - thelancet.com
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial
communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this …

COVID-19 misinformation online and health literacy: a brief overview

S Bin Naeem, MN Kamel Boulos - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Low digital health literacy affects large percentages of populations around the world and is a
direct contributor to the spread of COVID-19-related online misinformation (together with …

The relationship between social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories and misinformation

AM Enders, JE Uscinski, MI Seelig, CA Klofstad… - Political behavior, 2021 - Springer
Numerous studies find associations between social media use and beliefs in conspiracy
theories and misinformation. While such findings are often interpreted as evidence that …

[HTML][HTML] Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

V Van Mulukom, LJ Pummerer, S Alper, H Bai… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories can have severe consequences; it is
therefore crucial to understand this phenomenon, in its similarities with general conspiracy …

[HTML][HTML] The changing role of innovation for crisis management in times of COVID-19: An integrative literature review

GD Sharma, S Kraus, M Srivastava, R Chopra… - Journal of Innovation & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have concentrated on developing
policies that encourage the creation of more innovative products and services in response to …

Effects of COVID-19 misinformation on information seeking, avoidance, and processing: A multicountry comparative study

HK Kim, J Ahn, L Atkinson… - Science …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the implications of exposure to misinformation about COVID-19 in the United
States, South Korea, and Singapore in the early stages of the global pandemic. The online …

The different forms of COVID-19 misinformation and their consequences

AM Enders, JE Uscinski… - Harvard Kennedy …, 2020 - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Implications Numerous conspiracy theories have attempted to tie the COVID-19 pandemic to
nefarious intentions and scapegoat the supposed conspirators (Uscinski et al., 2020) …

Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation

X Nan, Y Wang, K Thier - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Rationale Health misinformation poses a significant threat to public health. Understanding
why people believe health misinformation and who is at risk is crucial for developing …

The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

JM Carey, AM Guess, PJ Loewen, E Merkley… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Widespread misperceptions about COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus threaten to
exacerbate the severity of the pandemic. We conducted preregistered survey experiments in …

[HTML][HTML] Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US

D Romer, KH Jamieson - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale Previous research has shown that during the early months of the COVID-19
pandemic in the US, users of conservative media were more likely to accept conspiracy …