India had the highest prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation (15.94% of entire misinformation). The USA scored the second highest (9.74%), followed by Brazil (8.57%), Spain (8.03%), and Colombia (3.77%).

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- Country-related prevalence
- Sources of misinformation
- Sources of misinformation within the USA

Results of Cross-Cultural COVID-19 Misinformation Prevalence and Source Research

Al-Zaman, M. S. (2022). Prevalence and source analysis of COVID-19 misinformation in 138 countries. IFLA journal, 48(1), 189-204.

Prevalence and source analysis of COVID-19 misinformation in 138 countries

COVID-19 Misinformation Country-Related Prevalence

Social media resulted in most of the misinformation (84.94% of entire misinformation) and was followed by other sources on the Internet (5.56%). An example of a different source of misinformation was mainstream media (3.29%).

COVID-19 Misinformation Sources of Misinformation

In the USA, the majority of misinformation was a result of famous people (e.g., politicians; 31.16% of entire misinformation), followed by other internet sources (12.94%), mainstream media (11.20%), social media (8.61%), and miscellaneous (2.36%).

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