Examining the Global Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation
Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to the online proliferation of health-, political-, and conspiratorial-based misinformation. Understanding the reach and belief in this misinformation is vital to managing this crisis, as well as future crises. The results from our global survey finds a troubling reach of and belief in COVID-related misinformation, as well as a correlation with those that primarily consume news from social media, and, in the United States, a strong correlation with political leaning.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2006.08830
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2006.08830
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200608830N
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Social and Information Networks;
- Physics - Physics and Society