..., in general, increase the popularity of information across platforms. The effect is found most consistently for negative discrete emotions, such as anger, anxiety, sadness and fear. Positivity bias is often identified in health communication, while negativity bias is prevalent in political communication...

... of information shared about the pandemic. Peer review The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-03-2021-0143/ . Social media Coronavirus Health communication Information diffusion Misinformation Twitter COVID-19 The ubiquity of social...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social media Facebook Health communication COVID-19 Health crisis Social media has become an important health communication tool (Chou et al., 2009 ; Thackeray et al., 2012). Not only the users of the social media but also...

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