Published on in Vol 8, No 1 (2021): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/23279, first published .
Prevalence of Misinformation and Factchecks on the COVID-19 Pandemic in 35 Countries: Observational Infodemiology Study

Prevalence of Misinformation and Factchecks on the COVID-19 Pandemic in 35 Countries: Observational Infodemiology Study

Prevalence of Misinformation and Factchecks on the COVID-19 Pandemic in 35 Countries: Observational Infodemiology Study

Meeyoung Cha   1, 2 , DPhil ;   Chiyoung Cha   3 , DPhil ;   Karandeep Singh   2 , DPhil ;   Gabriel Lima   1, 2 , BSc ;   Yong-Yeol Ahn   4, 5, 6 , DPhil ;   Juhi Kulshrestha   7 , DPhil ;   Onur Varol   8 , DPhil

1 School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

2 Data Science Group, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

3 College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

4 Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

5 Indiana University Network Science Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

6 Connection Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

7 GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

8 Computer Science Department, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Corresponding Author:

  • Meeyoung Cha, DPhil
  • School of Computing
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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  • Daejeon
  • Republic of Korea
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  • Email: mcha@ibs.re.kr