Facebook was the source of the majority of social media misinformation (66.87% of entire misinformation on social media) followed by WhatsApp (10.22%).

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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

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

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