Study finds social media responsible for spreading misinformation about coronavirus

A new study has found that social media is primary source of spreing fake news about coronavirus infection. study published in journal Harvard Kennedy School of Misinformation Review revealed that people who relied on social media and internet at beginning of pandemic were more misinformed and were likely to believe in conspiracy ories about COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, pandemic has killed 2,07,008 and infected 2,995,152 across world with a majority in mainland US.

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US ults were surveyed

study was based on a  survey, Annenberg Science Kwledge survey on COVID-19, which was conducted in March on 1008 ults across America. study involved researchers from University of Pennslyvania and University of Illiis at Urbana Champaign. From survey, researchers found that people’s perception of coronavirus was dependent on ir media consumption. y also found that conservative media us "highly correlated" with  level of misinformation and belief in a conspiracy about COVID-19 pandemic.

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In dition, it also found that over 23 per cent of people believed that Chinese have created virus as bioweapon while 21 per cent believed that taking vitamin-C could prevent coronavirus infection. According to researchers, “social media or web aggregators”, us was associated with lower levels of information and higher levels of misinformation. Elaborating furr, researcher revealed that people using social media Facebook, Twitter and Youtube were more likely to believe that Vitamin C could prevent infection of coronavirus and that some people in CDC were exaggerating  harm. In dition, y also believed that  virus was created by US  government. Meanwhile, people who used web aggregators were more likely to t believe in effectiveness of handwashing and avoiding symptomatic individual so as to prevent virus.

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