ArticleComputers in human behavior2023
What message features influence the intention to share misinformation about COVID-19 on social media? The role of efficacy and novelty.
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- Public information sharing during public health emergencies: an adaptive-network evolutionary game.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Intervening and reducing sharing of false cancer treatments on social media: Online experiment.PloS one · 2026Article
- Using ERPs to unveil the authenticity evaluation and neural response to online rumors.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How life circumstances during public health crises affect people to share and correct misinformation: a perspective of the third-person effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Overcome the fragmentation in online propaganda literature: the role of cultural and cognitive sociology.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Review
- The moderating influence of perceived government information transparency on COVID-19 pandemic information adoption on social media systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- One Dose Is Not Enough: The Beneficial Effect of Corrective COVID-19 Information Is Diminished If Followed by Misinformation.Social media + societyArticle
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Abstract
Given the amount of misinformation being circulated on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential threat to public health, it is imperative to investigate ways to hinder its transmission. To this end, this study aimed to identify message features that may contribute to misinformation sharing on social media. Based on the theory of social sharing of emotion and the extant research on message credibility, this study examined if emotions and message credibility serve as mechanisms through which novelty and efficacy of misinformation influence sharing intention. An online experiment concerning COVID-19 misinformation was conducted by employing a 2 (novelty conditions: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy conditions: high vs. low) between-subjects design using a national quota sample in South Korea (
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