Fake news and COVID-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users

Apuke, Oberiri Destiny; Omar, Bahiyah

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2020.101475

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“…Although the internet has been an important source of information during the COVID-19 pandemic, 39 it has also been an important source of misinformation. 40 Therefore, we argue that there is a need for a network gatekeeping mechanism to guarantee the provision of reliable scientific information during health crises such as this.…”

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The Psychological Impact and Associated Factors of COVID-19 on the General Public in Hunan, China

Shi¹,

Guo²,

Luo³

et al. 2020

RMHP

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This study aimed to assess the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among the general public in Hunan Province, China, which could help develop psychological interventions and mental health programs. Participants and Methods: This online cross-sectional study recruited 571 participants through snowball sampling between February 2 and February 5, 2020. Data were collected through a general information questionnaire, the Public Emergency Psychological State Questionnaire, the Simple Coping Style Questionnaire, and the Public Disease Awareness on COVID-19 Scale. Results: The total mean score of the public emergency psychological state of the sample was 0.27 (0.31) points, with only 5.78% of participants (n = 33) developing psychological distress. Avoidant coping style and disease awareness were weakly positively correlated (r s = 0.257, p < 0.01) and weakly negatively correlated (r s = −0.124, p <0.01) with psychological responses, respectively. There were significant psychological differences among the following variables: occupation, symptoms of fever or fatigue, discernment of the authenticity of COVID-19 information, and level of concern regarding COVID-19 (p < 0.05). Conclusion:The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had a minor psychological impact on the general population in Hunan Province. However, psychological health promotion in the general public is still required, especially for employees (such as company employees, migrant workers, and businessmen), individuals with COVID-19-like symptoms, limited discernment competence and unconcerned attitudes. Implications: The initiatives for improving psychological health among the general public could focus on delivering COVID-19 knowledge and alleviating avoidant coping styles. Our findings could provide important insight for the development of psychological support strategies in China, as well as in other places affected by the epidemic.

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The Psychological Impact and Associated Factors of COVID-19 on the General Public in Hunan, China

Shi¹,

Guo²,

Luo³

et al. 2020

RMHP

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“…The dramatic increase in fake news dissemination during COVID-19 (Apuke & Omar, 2020;Calvillo, Ross, Garcia, Smelter, & Rutchick, 2020;A. K. M. N. Islam, Laato, Talukder, & Sutinen, 2020;Pennycook, McPhetres, et al, 2020) and older adults' high-risk status as well as their elevated subjective risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020) may render COVID-related news particularly emotionally salient and personally-relevant to older adults, and could trigger engagement in risky behavior (e.g., misuse of bleach to treat the disease).…”

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Aging in an “infodemic”: The role of cognition, affect, and experience on news veracity detection during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pehlivanoglu¹,

Lin²,

Joseph³

et al. 2020

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Increasing misinformation spread, including related to COVID-19, is concerning and poses a particular threat to older adults given their enhanced subjective risk perception, disease-related risk, and impaired decision making. To date, psychological factors contributing to news veracity detection in aging are not well understood. This study determined the role of (i) analytical reasoning; (ii) mood; and (iii) news consumption on real and fake news detection among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic; and examined (iv) the extent to which news content moderated these associations. Participants were randomly assigned to view either COVID-related (N = 119) or non-COVID (N = 123) news articles, followed by analytical reasoning, mood, and news consumption measures. Accuracy for non-COVID fake news was higher than accuracy for non-COVID real news; with this effect not present for COVID-related news. Further, higher analytical reasoning (but not mood or media consumption) was associated with greater non-COVID fake news accuracy, while accuracy for non-COVID real news, or COVID-related real and fake news, did not vary by analytical reasoning ability. Uniquely extending previous work into aging, the novel findings generated here are discussed in the context of psychological mechanisms underlying news veracity detection and related decision-making processes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Banyak kajian tentang media sosial telah dilakukan selama krisis kesehatan pandemi COVID-19 ini, kajian tersebut umumnya seputar topik; diseminasi informasi kesehatan (Abdoli & Heidarnejadi, 2020;Apuke & Omar, 2020;Barua et al, 2020;Islam et al, 2020;Kaya, 2020;Merchant & Lurie, 2020;Moran, 2020;Tsui et al, 2020), kesehatan mental (Gao et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2020;Nabity-Grover et al, 2020;Naeem, 2021;Zhong et al, 2021), sentiment di media social (Bhat et al, 2020;Chakraborty et al, 2020), serta dukungan sosial dan manajemen pandemi melalui media sosial (Carlos et al, 2020;Li & Zhang, 2020).…”

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Instagram sebagai Medium Komunikasi Risiko di Masa Pandemi COVID-19: Studi Netnografi terhadap Komunitas Online KawalCOVID19.id

Damayanti¹

2020

Jurnal KMP

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Media sosial berperan signifikan selama pandemi COVID-19 sebab memungkinkan orang untuk berbagi berita, pengalaman pribadi dan sudut pandang satu sama lain secara real-time dan global. Kawalcovid19.id merupakan komunitas virtual yang menyebarkan informasi seputar COVID-19 yang akurat ditengah banjir informasi di masyarakat Indonesia. Sifat Two way communication dari media sosial membuat komunikasi risiko berhasil, di mana terjadi pertukaran informasi diantara para ahli dan masyarakat mengenai risiko dan managemennya atas situasi berisiko yang dihadapi sehingga dapat mengambil keputusan yang tepat untuk melindungi diri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tren komunikasi risiko pada akun Instagram @kawalcovid19.id, fungsi komunikasi yang dijalankan komunitas sebagai agen gerakan sosial, dan pemaknaan khalayak terhadap komunikasi risiko yang dilakukan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode studi netnografi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa komunikasi risiko yang disampaikan melalui konten mendapatkan reaksi yang positif dan interaktif dari warganet, minat mereka terlihat lebih tinggi kepada konten yang diproduksi dalam bentuk infografis dengan isi pesan yang bersifat informatif dibandingkan yang edukatif. Pesan informatif berisi update kasus, himbauan protokoler kesehatan, informasi kebijakan pemerintah, dan informasi terkait ibadah. Kajian ini memperlihatkan bahwa komunikasi risiko akan efektif disampaikan melalui Instagram menggunakan konten infografis dan bersifat informatif.

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Fake news and COVID-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users

Cited by 520 publications

References 61 publications

The Psychological Impact and Associated Factors of COVID-19 on the General Public in Hunan, China

The Psychological Impact and Associated Factors of COVID-19 on the General Public in Hunan, China

Aging in an “infodemic”: The role of cognition, affect, and experience on news veracity detection during the COVID-19 pandemic

Instagram sebagai Medium Komunikasi Risiko di Masa Pandemi COVID-19: Studi Netnografi terhadap Komunitas Online KawalCOVID19.id

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