Mitigating infodemics: The relationship between news exposure and trust and belief in COVID-19 fake news and social media spreading.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Misinformation surrounding COVID-19 poses a global public health problem that adversely affects governments' abilities to mitigate the disease and causes accidental deaths and self-harm due to false beliefs about the virus, prevention measures, vaccines and cure...

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Main Authors: Jad Melki, Hani Tamim, Dima Hadid, Maha Makki, Jana El Amine, Eveline Hitti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252830