Misinformation sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19: An affordance and cognitive load perspective

By A. K. M. Najmul Islam, Samuli Laato, S. Talukder, Erkki Sutinen. Technological forecasting & social change, 2020

472 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Highlights • We study social media use, fake news sharing and social media fatigue during COVID-19.• Self-promotion and entertainment increase the sharing of unverified information.• Exploration and religiosity correlate negatively with the sharing of unverified information.• Deficient self-regulation increases both fatigue and the sharing of unverified information.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6149be4bb9827038d6516d7f75f2cf9e2aaf3204

Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19 information overload and generation Z's social media discontinuance intention during the pandemic lockdown (2021, unknown): “The latest observations suggest that the enormous amount of COVID-19 information generated on social media has overwhelmed users and had a strong impact on their psychological well-being (Islam et al., 2020).”