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 …

The disaster of misinformation: a review of research in social media

S Muhammed T, SK Mathew - International journal of data science and …, 2022‏ - Springer
The spread of misinformation in social media has become a severe threat to public interests.
For example, several incidents of public health concerns arose out of social media …

Misinformation of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine hesitancy

SK Lee, J Sun, S Jang, S Connelly - Scientific reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
The current study examined various types of misinformation related to the COVID-19
vaccines and their relationships to vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Study 1 asked a sample of …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of health misinformation on social media: systematic review

V Suarez-Lledo, J Alvarez-Galvez - Journal of medical Internet research, 2021‏ - jmir.org
Background Although at present there is broad agreement among researchers, health
professionals, and policy makers on the need to control and combat health misinformation …

Planning for a COVID-19 vaccination program

SS DeRoo, NJ Pudalov, LY Fu - Jama, 2020‏ - jamanetwork.com
(COVID-19) pandemic, hopefully, will be a globally implemented, safe vaccination program
that has broad clinical and socioeconomic benefits. Dozens of vaccines are in development …

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

AM Guess, M Lerner, B Lyons, JM Montgomery… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern
societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and political antecedents to …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic literature review on the spread of health-related misinformation on social media

Y Wang, M McKee, A Torbica, D Stuckler - Social science & medicine, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Contemporary commentators describe the current period as “an era of fake news” in which
misinformation, generated intentionally or unintentionally, spreads rapidly. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of misinformation on COVID-19 individual responses and recommendations for resilience of disastrous consequences of misinformation

Z Barua, S Barua, S Aktar, N Kabir, M Li - Progress in Disaster Science, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms is faster than the spread of
Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) and it can generate hefty deleterious consequences on …

Covid-19: how doctors and healthcare systems are tackling coronavirus worldwide

JH Tanne, E Hayasaki, M Zastrow, P Pulla, P Smith… - Bmj, 2020‏ - bmj.com
Covid-19: how doctors and healthcare systems are tackling coronavirus worldwide | The BMJ
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[HTML][HTML] Countering misinformation

J Roozenbeek, E Culloty, J Suiter - European Psychologist, 2023‏ - econtent.hogrefe.com
Develo** effective interventions to counter misinformation is an urgent goal, but it also
presents conceptual, empirical, and practical difficulties, compounded by the fact that …