Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media usage increased substantially and it is now more important than ever to protect yourself from misinformation.
Yan Su, doctoral candidate in the Murrow College of Communication, found that people were believing COVID-19 was created in a lab and Bill Gates already had access to the vaccine and was going to sell it to the highest bidder.
“I just measured the extent to which they believe it or if they agree with those theories,” he said. “The more they use social media for information seeking [purposes], the more likely they agree that both theories are correct.”
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Social Media Offers Opportunity for Misinformation, Study Finds
In addition to utilizing fact checkers to flag potentially misleading information, researchers say these sites could also combat the falsities on their platforms by providing literacy education to users. by Scott Jackson, Moscow-Pullman Daily News / December 18, 2020 Shutterstock/klevo
(TNS) People who rely on social media for news and information are more likely to believe misinformation related to COVID-19, according to a recent study conducted at Washington State University.
Researcher Yan Su, a doctoral candidate with WSU s Murrow College of Communication, said he looked at more than 3,000 responses to the 2020 American National Election Studies Exploratory Testing Survey conducted at the start of the pandemic. Su said he narrowed the field to about 480 respondents who said they believed one of two COVID-19 conspiracy theories and compared th