... ; Chowdhury et al., 2023). Such widespread misinformation about COVID-19 posed a severe threat to global public health, hindering efforts to control the pandemic (Bridgman et al., 2020 ; Chowdhury et al., 2023). Misinformation correction, the act of an individual publicly...

... perception of health misinformation’s influence on others. The presumed influence is further positively tied to two pre-emptive countermeasures (i.e. support for media literacy interventions and institutional verification intention) and one reactive countermeasure (i.e. misinformation correction intention...

...Anfan Chen; Zhuo Chen; Aaron Yikai Ng Purpose This study examines the role of crowd wisdom in misinformation correction. Going beyond fact-checking, we investigate the mechanisms underlying laypeople’s participation in misinformation correction. Drawing upon the Norm Activation Model (NAM...

...Xizhu Xiao; Wenyuan Yang Purpose While much research has examined the effect of media literacy in combatting misinformation, whether and to what extent news media literacy influences misinformation-related behaviors (i.e. misinformation sharing, misinformation correction) and the mediating effect...

... 09 2022 12 01 2023 18 02 2023 27 03 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Misinformation Social media Third-person perception Misinformation correction Correction with justification In the recent...