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

Effect of Frequency of Misinformation Correction

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

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Researchers have investigated the effects of correcting misinformation on social media related to COVID-19. They have looked at both the effectiveness of corrections from health organizations and individual accounts.

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).

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