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

By Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Bahiyah Omar. Telematics and informatics, 2020

634 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Highlights • Social media, fake news, and COVID-19.• Misinformation on social media has fuelled panic regarding the COVID-19.• Altruism is the strongest predictor of fake news sharing on COVID-19.• Socialization, information seeking and pass time predict fake news sharing.• Entertainment is not associated with sharing fake news on COVID-19.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023, background): “…Grinberg et al. 2019; Guess et al. 2019; Baptista and Gradim 2020), health science (Alonso-Galbán and Alemañy-Castilla 2022; Desai et al. 2022; Apuke and Omar 2021; Escolà-Gascón 2021; Wang et al. 2019c; Hart-ley and Vu 2020; Micallef et al. 2020; Pennycook et al. 2020b; Sharma et al. 2020;…”