The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

UKH Ecker, S Lewandowsky, J Cook… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L Xiao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between COVID-19 misinformation exposure and belief with COVID-19 knowledge and preventive behaviors: cross-sectional online study

JJ Lee, KA Kang, MP Wang, SZ Zhao… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Online misinformation proliferation during the COVID-19 pandemic has become
a major public health concern. Objective We aimed to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 …

Evaluating the impact of attempts to correct health misinformation on social media: A meta-analysis

N Walter, JJ Brooks, CJ Saucier, S Suresh - Health communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Social media poses a threat to public health by facilitating the spread of misinformation. At
the same time, however, social media offers a promising avenue to stem the distribution of …

Interventions to counter misinformation: Lessons from the Global North and applications to the Global South

RA Blair, J Gottlieb, B Nyhan, L Paler, P Argote… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
We synthesize evidence from 176 experimental estimates of 11 interventions intended to
combat misinformation in the Global North and Global South, which we classify as …

Association of COVID-19 misinformation with face mask wearing and social distancing in a nationally representative US sample

R Hornik, A Kikut, E Jesch, C Woko, L Siegel… - Health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Wide-spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges for
communicating public health recommendations. Should campaigns to promote protective …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 misinformation trends in Australia: prospective longitudinal national survey

K Pickles, E Cvejic, B Nickel, T Copp, C Bonner… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Misinformation about COVID-19 is common and has been spreading rapidly
across the globe through social media platforms and other information systems …

The debunking handbook 2020

S Lewandowsky, J Cook, U Ecker, D Albarracin… - 2020 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
The Debunking Handbook 2020 Page 1 University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University
of Nebraska - Lincoln Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc. Libraries at …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing COVID-19 misinformation on social media preemptively and responsively

EK Vraga, L Bode - Emerging infectious diseases, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Efforts to address misinformation on social media have special urgency with the emergence
of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In one effort, the World Health Organization (WHO) …

Effects of fact-checking social media vaccine misinformation on attitudes toward vaccines

J Zhang, JD Featherstone, C Calabrese… - Preventive …, 2021 - Elsevier
Social media vaccine misinformation can negatively influence vaccine attitudes. It is urgent
to develop communication approaches to reduce the misinformation's impact. This study …