People who have high health anxiety are less likely to accept corrected information and more likely to believe misinformation.

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- organization vs individual
- frequency of correction
- effect of health anxiety

Effects of Correction to Misinformation in COVID-19 Research (Individual vs Organizational)


Seo, H., Xiong, A., Lee, S., & Lee, D. (2022, May). If You Have a Reliable Source, Say Something: Effects of Correction Comments on COVID-19 Misinformation. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 16, pp. 896-907).

If You Have a Reliable Source, Say Something: Effects of Correction Comments on COVID-19 Misinformation

Effect of Health Anxiety on Misinformation Correction

Corrections from both individual users and organizations (health organizations or fact-checking accounts) were effective in reducing how accurate information was perceived to be.

Effect of Organizational vs Individual Misinformation Correction

Mixed findings have been yielded suggesting that frequency of correction may or may not lead to lower perceived accuracy of misinformation.

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